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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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   How much does Infinite Jest cost?

   • Infinite Jest. Little, Brown, 1996. 1,079 pp. $29.95". Review of Contemporary Fiction. 16 (1): 141–142. ^ Bartlett, Christopher (June 8, 2016). ""An Exercise in Telemachry": David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Intergenerational Conversation". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 57 (4): 374–389. doi: 10.1080/00111619.2015.1113921.

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   Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, 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. 4.25. 92,121 ratings11,265 reviews. 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 ...

   • 4.3/5 (92K)

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   Nov 13, 2006 · by David Foster Wallace (Author) 4.4 5,648 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...

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   • Author: David Foster Wallace

   • Price: $17.59
   • Brand: Back Bay Books

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   Feb 26, 2016 · Infinite Jest at 20: 20 things you need to know. The beloved 1,100-page novel is David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus and one of the most influential books of its time, but did you know...

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   Summary. Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. Infinite Jest: Introduction. A concise biography of David Foster Wallace plus historical and literary context for Infinite Jest. Infinite Jest: Plot Summary.

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    Apr 3, 2009 · Kindle Edition. by David Foster Wallace (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 5,643 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...