Infinite jest : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316066525
- ISBN: 0316066524
- ISBN: 9780316066525 : PAP
- ISBN: 0316066524 : PAP
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Physical Description:
xv, 1079 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: Back Bay 10th anniversary pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, 2006.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearingly screwed-up families in contemporary fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to 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."--Back cover. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Compulsive behavior Humorous stories Fiction Addicts Fiction Compulsive behavior Fiction |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Humorous stories. |
Available copies
- 5 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Babcock Library - Ashford | F Wal (Text) | 33110150617593 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Wal (Text) | 33180141821745 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | FIC WAL (Text) | 33420145245693 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
New Milford Public Library | F WALLA (Text) | 34021137063901 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | FIC WALLACE (Text) | 34010150873783 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 03/31/2024 |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC WALLACE, D (Text) | 34005151083820 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Infinite Jest
Writer David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York on February 21, 1962. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He was working on his master's degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona when he published his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). Wallace published his second novel Infinite Jest (1996) which introduced a cast of characters that included recovering alcoholics, foreign statesmen, residents of a halfway house, and high-school tennis stars. He spent four years researching and writing this novel. His first collection of short stories was Girl with Curious Hair (1989). He also published a nonfiction work titled Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present. He committed suicide on September 12, 2008 at the age of 46 after suffering with bouts of depression for 20 years. (Bowker Author Biography)