Infinite Jest: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0316066524
- ISBN-13
- 9780316066525
- Series
- Infinite Jest
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 1079
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-11-13
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
Description
The story of an intelligent but zany dysfunctional family is set in a drug-and-alcohol addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy and follows such themes as heartbreak, philosophy, and advertising.
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- 2011
- 216 pages
- Paperback
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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