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Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup 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. Need help on characters in david foster wallaces infinite jest. The best long books that are worth your time pan macmillan. Infinite jest by david foster wallace knowledge lost. In a 2008 retrospective by the new york times, infinite jest was described as a masterpiece that s also a monster nearly 1,100 pages of mindblowing inventiveness and. Infinite jest, david foster wallace shop online for books.
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At the time the book was written, such numbers were commonly encountered in the names of computer hardware, the context here. It is designed as a resource for potential readers who fear infinite jest is plotless. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semiparodic future version of north america. Infinite jest wallace, david foster 9780316066525 hpb. Discover book depositorys huge selection of david wallace books online. Among his honors, he received a macarthur foundation fellowship, a lannan literary award, and a whiting writers award. Tibetandead book better known as the tibetan book of the dead. Contents preface to the second edition viii chronology xii 1 infinite jest and the twentieth century.
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Of course, her most serious offence is that she is sexually involved with a student, a fact that should seriously cast doubt on her parenting abilities. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. Infinite jest, david foster wallace shop online for. David foster wallace 19622008 is the author of infinite jest, girl with curious hair, everything and more, the broom of the system, and other. David foster wallaces legacy 1 2 problems in david foster wallaces poetics 3 the novel 33 epilogue. Navigating its maze of relationships and 400 footnotes could drive even the most seasoned. Before his death in 2008, foster wallace was a prolific novelist, essayist and shortstory writer, as well as a professor of english and creative writing. Hal incandenza is the closest the book comes to having a protagonist. Aug 01, 2019 david foster wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels infinite jest and the broom of the system.
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