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Sinopsis

A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . .

'Extraordinary... an astonishing and vast epic of contemporary American culture' Guardian
'A writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times
'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent
'An exploding star of a novel' Spectator
'A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction' Daily Telegraph

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Acerca del autor

David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. His writings have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, the New Republic, New Yorker, Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008.

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A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart

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