David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Second printing of first edition. 0316920045 1079 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in blue cloth spine and light blue paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Publisher's logo is blind stamped on front cover. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear, with white price sticker to lower inside corner of rear panel. Jacket, with price of $29.95 on front flap, is preserved in mylar cover.
"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."