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Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers - introduction
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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 The "grandly ambitious, wickedly comic" modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, now in a new 30th anniversary edition (Seattle Times).

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.

"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." —Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic

 Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Sports Witty Entertainment Fiction Comedy

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I agree you need the integrated end Notes version. I also found listening to - ' The Infinite Cast Podcast ' alongside this book very helpful. I only gave four stars to the story because you have to work out the structure of the story yourself, so if you are looking just for a story then this isn't the book for you.

it's a panoramic kaleidoscope of a book

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