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.
關於作者：
David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and
raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis
player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and
English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first
novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He
received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987
and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard
University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996.
Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State
University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections
Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and
Oblivion and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll
Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the
MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting
Writers'' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in
2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.
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