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Infinite jest : a novel

Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
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Genre/Form: Humorous stories
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 0316920045 9780316920049 0316921173 9780316921176
OCLC Number: 32738491
Description: 1079 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: David Foster Wallace.

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A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
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Best Book of the Last 10 Years!

by srharris19 (WorldCat user published 2007-05-06) Excellent Permalink
I've often heard this book described as "difficult." Nonsense! It's long. It's complex. It's challenging. It covers lots of weighty subject matter. But it's also funny, intriguing, stimulating, and touching.Yes, I really meant "touching." For all the talk about how Wallace plays games with the reader,...
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