Infinite Jest (Abacus 40th Anniversary) - Softcover

Foster Wallace, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349139059 ISBN 13: 9780349139050

Verlag: Abacus, 2013

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Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . .

'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . . sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration . . . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, Guardian

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Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . .

'An exploding star of a novel . . . reading the book is itself a sort of addiction . . . Wallace writes with authority, deep feeling and caustic wit' Spectator

'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . . Sentences and whole pages marvels of comic concentration . . . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, Guardian

'A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction . . . the book's mixture of maniacal inventiveness and comic brio gradually becomes an addiction itself. What are the rewards for wrestling with this behemoth? Plenty: they lie in the virtuoso facility with language in a variety of idioms and registers, the rumbustious comic energy and the odd generosity of spirit . . . A book of our times' Anthony Quinn, Daily Telegraph

'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent

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• Verlag: Abacus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349139059
• ISBN 13: 9780349139050
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1104