Infinite Jest

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.

Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Back Bay Books

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Pages: 1,079pp
Size: 6 x 9.25 x 2
Notes: paperback
Release Date: November 13, 2006
ISBN: 978-0316066525

20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
This deluxe paperback edition -- featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell -- celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest.
Pages: 1,104pp
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 x 2
Notes: paperback
Release Date: February 23, 2016
ISBN: 978-0316306058

30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart. 
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Pages: 1,104pp
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 x 2
Notes: paperback
Release Date: February 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-0316602921