Infinite Jest - Winner of the Hieronymusring 2009. Forew. by Dave Eggers
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| Verlag | Little |
| Auflage | 2006 |
| Seiten | 1079 |
| Format | 23,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 1150 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0316066524 |
| EAN | 9780316066525 |
| Bestell-Nr | 31606652EA |
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 ...\'Wallace\'s exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure ...sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration ...Wallace is a superb comedian of culture\' James Wood, GUARDIAN
Klappentext:
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.
