![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They struggle now with the agony of living without their long-beloved substance, with the difficulties of making an ordinary life, and with questions like: What do the pleasures we choose say about who we are? What does easy pleasure do to the soul? Is it possible really to know even the people closest to us? Can we find happiness at all?Įqual parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. But they have reached, over the years, stages of distress and pain extreme enough to make them consider changing their ways. The people in this novel can make themselves happy at any moment – with a pill, a drink, a smoke – and pleasure themselves with an unending stream of distractions and entertainments. David Foster Wallace’s epic takes place in a near future so commercialized that the naming rights to each year are auctioned off (welcome to “the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar”) and explores essential questions about life in a land of plenty. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearingly screwed-up families in modern fiction, Infinite Jest is an unforgettable, life-changing, and often hilarious novel about some of the saddest subjects imaginable. Genre: Metafiction, Satire, Post-modernism Synopsis Number of Pages: 1,079 (982 pages of narrative, 96 pages of notes and errata) ![]()
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