Zusatztext One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory. Informationen zum Autor David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System , the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster . His writings have appeared in Esquire , Harper's , the New Republic , New Yorker , Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008. Klappentext A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart 'We will likely not see another book like this in our lifetimes' Michelle Zauner, bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and frontwoman for Japanese Breakfast Tennis prodigy Hal Incandenza and recovering addict Don Gately are consumed by the same obsession: their search for the master copy of Infinite Jest , a movie so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything else ... 'Extraordinary... an astonishing and vast epic of contemporary American culture' Guardian 'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent 'An exploding star of a novel' Spectator 'A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction' Daily Telegraph Vorwort 'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent With a foreword by Dave Eggers Zusammenfassung A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart...

One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory.

Vorwort

'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent

With a foreword by Dave Eggers

Autorentext
David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. His writings have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, the New Republic, New Yorker, Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008.

Klappentext

A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart
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'We will likely not see another book like this in our lifetimes' Michelle Zauner, bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and frontwoman for Japanese Breakfast**

Tennis prodigy Hal Incandenza and recovering addict Don Gately are consumed by the same obsession: their search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything else ...

'Extraordinary... an astonishing and vast epic of contemporary American culture' Guardian
'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' Independent
'An exploding star of a novel' Spectator
'A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction' Daily Telegraph