Infinite Jest de David Foster Wallace - 1996

VERY GOOD+ — DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Small closed tear to bottom of spine. BOARDS: Very good condition. Bottom outside corner bumped, back board. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

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Here on offer is a very nice copy of David Foster Wallace's second novel, his magnum opus, Infinite Jest, which is featured in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1996. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve.

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"A gargantuan, mind-altering 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 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. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human — and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. With a foreword by Tom Bisell. 'The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.' —Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic"

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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.

The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. In 2008, he died by suicide at age 46 after struggling with depression for many years.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Little, Brown publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.