Infinite Jest Av David Foster Wallace

<B>A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America</B> <BR/><BR/>Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, <I>Infinite Jest</I> 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.<BR/><BR/>Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, <I>Infinite Jest</I> 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.<BR/><BR/><B>"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." </B>&mdas