Infinite Jest

Zusatztext One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory. Informationen zum Autor David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System , the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster . His writings have appeared in Esquire , Harper's , the New Republic , New Yorker , Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008. Klappentext 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 cultures" James Wood, GUARDIAN Vorwort 'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent With a foreword by Dave Eggers Zusammenfassung 'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' IndependentWith a foreword by Dave Eggers

One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory.

Vorwort

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

With a foreword by Dave Eggers

Autorentext

David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. His writings have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, the New Republic, New Yorker, Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008.

Klappentext

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 cultures" James Wood, GUARDIAN