Infinite Jest. A Novel

Wallace, David Foster

ISBN 10: 0316920045 / ISBN 13: 9780316920049

Published by Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1996

About this Item

Publication Date February 19, 1996. Uncorrected Advance Proof/Speical Galleys signed by the author. (on the front endpaper). 1079pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Special Bound Galley/Uncorrected Advance.

Seller Inventory # 091434

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infinite Jest. A Novel
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., Boston
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316920045
• ISBN 13: 9780316920049
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

By the author of "The Broom of the System". This is the story of the addictive power of a movie - "Infinite Jest" - and how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering drug addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have budding addictions of their own.

About the Author

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.