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Infinite Jest

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6th December 2007

Price: £12.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349121086

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‘A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything’ New York Times

‘Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight’ James Wood, Guardian


‘He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He’s damn good’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian


‘One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory’
Sunday Times

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 . . .

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Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN
He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damn good
NEW YORK TIMES
A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything
James Woods, GUARDIAN
Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight
SUNDAY TIMES
One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory.