Infinite Jest

Description:

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.

subjects: Saddness,  Compulsive behavior,  Entertainment,  Tennis,  Addicts,  Fiction,  Separatist movements,  Motion pictures,  Humorous stories,  Family life,  Coming of age,  Friendship,  Dominance (Psychology),  Fiction, humorous,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-10-05,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, humorous, general