Infinite Jest

WALLACE, David Foster

ISBN 10: 0316920045 / ISBN 13: 9780316920049

Edité par Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1996

A propos de cet article

Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 1,079 pp. Very good+ in original paper-covered boards with mild foxing to head of text block, light shelfwear and toning to foot of spine and edges, and a fine pictorial dust jacket. A stated first edition, first printing with a full number line and the misspelling of Vollman[n] to the jacket's rear panel.

N° de réf. du vendeur 8390

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Infinite Jest
• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Co, Boston
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0316920045
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780316920049
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition, First Printing.
• État de l'article: Very good+
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

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 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 Atlantic

 

À propos de l?auteur

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.