Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA gargantuan, mind altering tragi comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. 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

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They can see the whole world below them

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but it turns out that it’s responsible for more than just dirty work: our gut is at the core of who we are

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It's a fresh outlook on an ardent struggle - and one that just might make the world a better place"

it is ideas that last

She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice

until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school

ready for them to send him running