{"product_id":"infinite-jest-a-novel-9780316920049","title":"Infinite Jest: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gargantuan  mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America  with a foreword by Tom Bissell.  To my mind  there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other. Stephen King  Entertainment Weekly  Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy  and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up 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; 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.  Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy  Infinite Jest 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 humanand one of those rare books that renews the idea of what a novel can do.  Uproarious ... Infinite Jest shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation  a writer  who can seemingly do anything. Michiko Kakutani  The New York Times  The next step in fiction ... Edgy  accurate  and darkly witty ... Think Beckett  think Pynchon  think Gaddis. Think. Sven Birkerts  The Atlantic  One of Time magazines 100 Best Novels (19232005)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665818542133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316920045","price":44.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316920049.jpg?v=1782408449","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/infinite-jest-a-novel-9780316920049","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}