"I'm not merely recommending this book to show off . . . yeah I am.
I really dislike practical advice, but remember to ask for two bookmarks: one for your page, the other for the endnotes."
Publisher Back Bay Books
Publication Date 2006-11-13
Section Fiction / Paperback Favorites / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Carter L.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780316066525
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.