{"product_id":"infinite-jest","title":"Infinite Jest","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America, with a foreword by Tom Bissell.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e is one; this is the other.\" --Stephen King, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 human--and one of those rare books that renews the idea of what a novel can do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Uproarious ... \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer ... who can seemingly do anything.\" ―\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The next step in fiction ... Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty ... Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.\" \u003cb\u003e--Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's \"100 Best Novels\" (1923--2005)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51941980668135,"sku":"9780316920049","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_fbe62c56-b4f0-4885-b841-b843f96bf787.jpg?v=1775242830","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/infinite-jest","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}