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   Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel , [1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

   • Author: David Foster Wallace
   • Pages: 1,079

   • Publish Year: 1996
   • Publication date: February 1, 1996

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   Feb 1, 1996 · David Foster Wallace. A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-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 ...

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3. www.theguardian.com › books › 2016Infinite Jest at 20: 20 things you need to know | David ...

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   Feb 26, 2016 · There is an enormous searchable Wiki, and on his website Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Ryan Compton has calculated that Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 words in the 577,608-word text. The ...

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5. www.amazon.com › Infinite-Jest-David-FosterInfinite Jest: Wallace, David Foster: 9780316066525: Amazon ...

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   Nov 13, 2006 · David Foster Wallace wrote the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl With Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and the full-length work Everything and More.

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   • Author: David Foster Wallace

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6. www.litcharts.com › lit › infinite-jestInfinite Jest Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts

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   David Foster Wallace was the child of two professors who grew up in Illinois. Like several of the characters in Infinite Jest, he was a competitive junior tennis player.. He was a joint major in English and philosophy at Amherst College, and his senior honors thesis for English became his first novel, The Broom in the System, which was published in 1987, the same year he graduated from the MFA ...

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2016/02/07 › booksEverything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite ...

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   Feb 1, 2016 · Tom Bissell’s new book is “Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve.”. This essay is adapted from his foreword to the 20th-anniversary edition of “Infinite Jest,” by David Foster ...

9. www.newyorker.com › 05 › how-to-read-infinite-jestHow to Read “Infinite Jest” - The New Yorker

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   Oct 29, 2018 · How to Read “Infinite Jest”. By Claire Friedman. October 29, 2018. Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez. 1. Buy hardcover copy of “Infinite Jest” at brick-and-mortar bookstore. Touch paper and ...

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    Who is David Foster Wallace in Infinite Jest?

    • Explanations of Infinite Jest 's symbols, and tracking of where they appear. An interactive data visualization of Infinite Jest 's plot and themes. David Foster Wallace was the child of two professors who grew up in Illinois. Like several of the characters in Infinite Jest, he was a competitive junior tennis player.

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    Was Infinite Jest a good book?

    • In 2008, A. O. Scott called Infinite Jest an "enormous, zeitgeist-gobbling novel that set his generation's benchmark for literary ambition" and Wallace "the best mind of his generation". James Wood has said that he regrets his negative review: "I wish I'd slowed down a bit more with David Foster Wallace."

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    What was Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest?

    • Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest was A Failed Entertainment. In the novel's future world, the United States, Canada, and Mexico together compose a unified North American superstate known as the Organization of North American Nations, or O.N.A.N. (an allusion to onanism ).

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    What books did David Foster Wallace write?

    • David Foster Wallace wrote the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl With Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and the full-length work Everything and More.

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