Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is a gargantuan and mind-altering comedy. Set in an addict halfway house and a tennis academy and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, it explores 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, it bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value.