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Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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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.

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

©2024 David Foster Wallace (P)2024 Little, Brown & Company Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Sports Witty 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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