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WALLACE DAVID FOSTER - GEBRAUCHT INFINITE JEST ...

Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it
loses all desire to do anything but watch it. People die happily  viewing it in endless
repetition. The novel Infinite Jest is the story of this addictive entertainment  and in
particular how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis
academy  whose students have many budding addictions of their own. As the novel unfolds 
various individuals  organizations  and governments vie to obtain the master copy of Infinite
Jest for their own ends  and the denizens of the tennis school and the halfway house are caught
up in increasingly desperate efforts to control the movie - as is a cast including burglars 
transvestite muggers  scam artists  medical professionals  pro football stars  bookies  drug
addicts both active and recovering  film students  political assassins  and one of the most
endearingly messed-up families ever captured in a novel. On this outrageous frame hangs an
exploration of essential questions about what entertainment is  and why it has come to so
dominate our lives  about how our desire for entertainment interacts with our need to connect
with other humans  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. The huge cast and multilevel narrative
serve a story that accelerates to a breathtaking  heartbreaking  unforgettable conclusion. It
is an exuberant  uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of
those rare books that renew the very idea of what a novelcan do.

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