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. "The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
Sobre o autor(a)
Wallace, David Foster
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE nasceu em Nova York, em 1962, e faleceu em 2008. Foi romancista, contista e ensaísta. Dele, a Companhia das Letras publicou o volume de contos Breves entrevistas com homens hediondos, a coletânea de ensaios Ficando longe do fato de já estar meio que longe de tudo e o romance Graça infinita, considerado um dos melhores livros das últimas décadas. |