Infinite Jest: A Novel

New York / Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x2x9. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 2023 Hard Cover. xv, 1079 pp. 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.