6/20/2023 0 Comments David foster wallace infiniteA little irritated about 2 credits (and did I mention no endnotes?) 10. Not sure if DFW would have allowed the endnotes to be stripped. Understand the difficulty of including endnotes in an audiobook, but alas, if you are going to call it unabridged, it better BE unabridged. Endnotes are an essential part of this novel. Removing Endnotes Does NOT Equal Unabridged!ġ. Please note: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material, including endnotes, will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. "The next step in fiction.Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty.Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. 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. 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.Įqual parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America
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