Infinite Jest

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

ISBN 0349121087   Pages 1104 ISBN13 9780349121086 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 790 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Published in London Imprint Abacus   Previous ISBN 9780349108773 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 06 Dec 2007   Width (mm) 130 Reissue date 07 Apr 2011   Spine width (mm) 54 DEWEY 813.54   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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 Woods, 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 TIMES

Because the end is at the start; because by turns it is uproariously funny and crushingly sad; because it is sometimes unnecessarily verbose and at other times necessarily direct; because of the totally original narrative style and Wallace's many idiosyncrasies; because of the frustrating but rewarding endnotes peppered throughout the book; Infinite Jest is a beautiful and intelligent critique of contemporary american culture and values. - Ali Lloyd - Blackwell Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh



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