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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
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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)
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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)
The book that changed the rules: The Independent called it 'A literary sensation' - now Infinite Jest is reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0349139059
- ISBN 13 9780349139050
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1104
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