Infinite Jest
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Wydawnictwo:
- Little, Brown
- Data wydania:
- 1996-07-04
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1996-07-04
- Liczba stron:
- 1088
- Czas czytania
- 18 godz. 8 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0316920045
- Tagi:
- literatura amerykańska uzależnienie narkotyki
- Inne
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up 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; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. 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.