{"product_id":"infinite-jest-9780316920049","title":"Infinite Jest","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEqual parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eSven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Foster Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.51h x 6.31w x 2.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316920049","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707089588361,"sku":"9780316920049","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d2c15c40-a860-4d44-9ac0-131ee577d174.jpg?v=1719478007","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/infinite-jest-9780316920049","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}