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INFINITE JEST

INFINITE JEST

A NOVEL

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

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Publisher:
ABACUS
Year of publication:
2007
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-349-12108-6
Pages:
1079
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Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . . 'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . . sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration . . . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, GUARDIAN

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