A GARGANTUAN, MIND-ALTERING COMEDY ABOUT THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN AMERICA et in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the Smost endearingly screwed-up families in contemporary fiction, 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. “Uproarious....Infinite Jest shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything.” —NEW YORK TIMES “The next step in fiction. . . . Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty. . . . Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.” — SVEN BIRKERTS, Atlantic Monthly is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the novels and Infinite Jest; the story collections , Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion; and the nonfiction collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous other awards. He died in 2008. His last novel, , was published in 2011. ACTUAL SIZE

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