About the Book: Infinite Jest
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston
halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis
Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie
said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire
in a state of catatonic bliss . . .
. Wallaces exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep
things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . .
sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration . . . Wallace is a
superb