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Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

From Shelf: You’re about to be stranded on a desert island and you can bring 1 book. What do you bring? Question set by @emmajaneauthor

'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' IndependentWith a foreword by Dave Eggers

'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damn good' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory' Sunday TimesSomewhere 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 . . .

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
1104
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:
9780349121086
Published Date:
5/6/1997
Dimensions:
195mm x 131mm x 50mm
Weight:
740g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780349121086


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