Feb 01, 1996 admittedly, infinite jest is a tough book. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. In my experience, guys who claim to love this book. It has been categorized as an encyclopedic novel and made time magazines list of the 100 best englishlanguage novels published between 1923 and 2005. The novel touches on the topics of tennis, substance addiction and recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising and popular entertainment, film theory, and quebec separatism.
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David foster wallace was born in ithaca, new york, in 1962 and raised in illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are hal incadenza, joelle van dyne. The first edition of the novel was published in february 1st 1996, and was written by david foster wallace. David foster wallace february 21, 1962 september 12, 2008 was an american author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of english and creative writing. Infinite jest by david foster wallace in epub, fb2, fb3 download ebook. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading infinite jest. Wallaces second novel is not for the fainthearted or the weakwristed. Infinite jest by david foster wallace year of glad year. Infinite jest has become an exemplar for difficulty in contemporary fictionits 1,079 pages full of verbal invention, oblique narration, and a scattered, nonlinear, chronology. David foster wallace was not only a very good author but a very good professor as well.
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