{"product_id":"infinite-jestbooks","title":"Infinite Jest","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqual parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a foreword by Tom Bisell. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Wallace, David Foster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/Adult Fiction","offer_id":43277870694624,"sku":"","price":15.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_be72e3b6-5b15-49fc-9b03-b2c004df38b2.jpg?v=1661441076","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/infinite-jestbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}