Infinite jest

a novel

Paperback, 1079 pages

English language

Published July 15, 1996 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-92004-9
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OCLC Number:
32738491

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Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and usage of endnotes (there are 388 endnotes, some with footnotes of their own). It has been categorized as an encyclopedic novel and made TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.Infinite Jest is regarded as a literary fiction bestseller, having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication. It has since exceeded a million copies in worldwide sales.

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Subjects

  • Compulsive behavior -- Fiction
  • Addicts -- Fiction