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Unquestionably, infinite jest required great ambition and focus to write, and requires a bit of ambition and focus to read as well. Two centuries into the future, the hundred concerns, a group of powerful corporations that dominate galactic commerce, have pressured the commonwealth of humans into signing a pact with the haluk, a conquering alien race with nefarious designs. Steven asin infinite jest is the perfect book for the kindle paperwhite. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book. I have three helpers to infinite jest, each purchased at different readings of the great novel. David foster wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels infinite jest and the broom of the system. I guess this is a first for me and ill get straight to the point. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace.
Each one has good material, but for an overall or first read of the book. When people do tackle it, they often give up within the first 200 pages or soone of the most difficult parts of the whole 1,000 pagesand may leave unsure of what theyve just experienced. Discover book depositorys huge selection of david wallace books online. I received an email earlier today from a reader who had excitedly received their unabridged audio book of. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by david foster wallace comprising about 1,000 pages.
A study of david foster wallaces infinite jest, and david foster wallaces infinite jest. Wallace wrote to a friend that the fuckers cut by 600 pages from the first version. The novel is widely noted for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes there are 388 endnotes, some with footnotes of their own. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup 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. Martins storm of swords are longer this, but i was able to clear those books much quicker than david foster wallaces second novel. Infinite jest is notoriously known for being a long book its just shy of 1100 pages.
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