Infinite Jest

Wallace, David Foster

ISBN 10: 0316920045 / ISBN 13: 9780316920049

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1996

About this Item

Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, signed by the author, as issued by the publisher. Near Fine with light wear to wraps; a beautiful copy. The late author's magnum-opus, and one of the most important literary works to come out of the 1990s (also known as pre-subsidized time).

Seller Inventory # 140945645

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infinite Jest
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316920045
• ISBN 13: 9780316920049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Advance Reading Copy.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Advance Copies
  • Literature
  • Signed

About this title

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.