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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…

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22 editions · 4 languages
  • Audiobook · English · 2012
    Hachette Audio · 9781611133868
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Little, Brown and Company · 9780316073851
  • Paperback · English · 2006
    Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company) · 1104 pages · 9780316066525
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Back Bay Books · 1088 pages · 9780316921176
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Abacus · 1088 pages · 9780349108773
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd) · 1079 pages · 9780316811170
SaddnessCompulsive behaviorEntertainmentTennisAddictsFictionSeparatist movementsMotion pictures