Infinite Jest - Brossura

Foster Wallace, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349141924 ISBN 13: 9780349141923

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2016

Riassunto

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

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Foster Wallace is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Kahn Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. He died in 2008.

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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 . . .

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0349141924
• ISBN 13: 9780349141923
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1104
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile