Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace [TRADE PAPERBACK] 2016 • Back Bay Books

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace TRADE PAPERBACK [2016] BACK BAY BOOKS Jumbo heavyweight Trade Paperback. Pretty solid reading copy with some creasing to front cover; and some edge wear to top of spine.  Otherwise, clean, tight and reads great. A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-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