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 endea
ringly 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 domin
ate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connec
t 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 ever
y 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 h
uman - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
