Infinite Jest

　　A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit ofHappiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennisacademy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family tocome along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essentialquestions about what entertainment is and why it has come to sodominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affectsour need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasureswe choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest andscrewball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction withoutsacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is anexuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that makeus human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of whata novel can do.

　　A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything(NEW YORK TIMES )

　　Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberanceand intellectual impishness are a delight (James Woods, GUARDIAN)

　　He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with asleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damngood (Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN )

　　One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appearin recent memory. (SUNDAY TIMES )