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Novels by David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest, the Pale King, the Broom of the System
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-25.
ISBN 9781156856192
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel written by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis, substance addiction and recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising and popular entertainment, film theory, and Quebec separatism. In 2005, Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. The novel derives its name in part from a line in Hamlet, in which Hamlet refers to the skull of Yorick, the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!" In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth." Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest was A Failed Entertainment. In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; for example "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to the Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians. The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA"), Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (endnoted "Redundancy s... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=870334
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