A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in
America
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the
most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction,
Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is
and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for
entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about
what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest
bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own
entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration
of the passions that make us human -- and one of those rare books that
renew the idea of what a novel can do.
With a foreword by Tom Bisell.
"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think
Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The
Atlantic