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 AtlanticAuthor: David Foster Wallace
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 1104
Size: 9.25h x 6.00w x 2.76d
ISBN: 9780316602921
Language: English
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