Infinite Jest
  • Published:
    Feb-1996 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2006 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    1079
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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.
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    •  
    • Nov-2006
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316066524
    • ISBN13: 9780316066525
    •  
    • Feb-1997
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316921173
    • ISBN13: 9780316921176
    •  
    • Jun-1997
    • Little, Brown
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0349121087
    • ISBN13: 9780349121086
    •  
    • Feb-2016
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316306053
    • ISBN13: 9780316306058
    • First Edition
    • Feb-1996
    • Little, Brown
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0316920045
    • ISBN13: 9780316920049
    •  
    • Feb-1997
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1417707860
    • ISBN13: 9781417707867
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Little, Brown
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0316073857
    • ISBN13: 9780316073851
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Abacus
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0748130985
    • ISBN13: 9780748130986
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    • Mar-2012
    • Hachette Audio
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1611133866
    • ISBN13: 9781611133868
    •  
    • Jan-2019
    • Little, Brown Book Group
    • Audible



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