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Personally, i hated infinite jest and i cant imagine ill ever want to reread any of it. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. Wallace taught creative writing at emerson college, illinois state university, and. Buy the david foster wallace reader 01 by foster wallace, david isbn. The novel is widely noted for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes. A big thank you to the men and women in the publishing industry who were kind andor lazy enough to keep things consistent. I spent some time getting to know it, and for awhile, i wasnt sure what the outcome would be. Infinite winter read infinite jest with a few hundred of. It presents reacher for the first time, as the tough exmilitary cop of no fixed abode. Find infinite jest 9780349121086 by wallace, david foster. Buy infinite jest 01 by foster wallace, david isbn. Infinite jest by david foster wallace, 9780349121086, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
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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. To fully understand what wallace was up to, the book bears being read, and reread, with talmudic focus and devotion. Amazon has eaten our beloved book depository chally. Coupled with its free shipping to more than 100 countries, the book depository is an international winner, with three quarters of its 2010 sales outside the uk. Not too many people write thousandpagers, much less read them. Infinite jest by david foster wallace, 9780316066525, available at. But if you are seeking something other, then this book will not disappoint. A multilayered postmodern saga of damnation and salvation. David foster wallace wrote the novels the pale king, infinite jest and the broom of the system and three story collections. This handsome book offers 165 examples, dating from about 1500 to the present, that reflect the ageold tradition of using exaggeration and humor to convey personal, social, or.
Page 223 is supposed to be the page where everything happens in infinite jest. Having said that, i feel pretty confident in asserting that it is not the greatest book in existence. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by david foster wallace comprising about 1,000 pages. Infinite summer blog archive how to read infinite jest. His second novel, infinite jest, was published in 1996. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. The novel infinite jest was published in 1996, when david foster wallace was 34.
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Reading infinite jest for the first time was like the start of any new relationship someone i trusted had put in a good word for it, and i decided to give it a go a new book is always a bit like a blind date. Beyond the ease with which one can lookup footnotes, consider the following. The buzzing claustrophobic energy of infinite jest placed wallace in the company of pynchon and delillo the wall street journal. Partly this was because i was reading it in situations when the weight and bulk of the physical edition would have been a big hassle, with infinite jest this is more of an issue than with a lot of other books. Not as grounbreaking, but still perceptive, on the consequences of our consumer mentality. Welcome to infinite books, your gateway to millions of books from around the world. Infinite jest 9780349121086 by wallace, david foster. At the top of a hill is the enfield tennis academy, and at the base of the hill is. At the macro level, infinite jest consists of numerous anticonfluential wallaces word episodes set a dozen years or so in the future as was the broom, at a time when numerical designations for years have been sold to corporate sponsors.
Jan 16, 2007 the novel infinite jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have many budding addictions of their own. I read the kindle version and it worked pretty well for me. Whether its drugs, sex, or fame, the novels primary goal is to examine the need for these addictions and show that it is possible to addicted to addiction itself. I have the old kindle2 so endnotes were a little bit laggy but they link back and forth from the main text easily enough and i.
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