Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition)

“Volleying between arch irony and deep sincerity, Infinite Jest draws from a wealth of literary and pop cultural wellsprings. Homer, The Bible, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Joyce, DeLillo, William James, The Beatles, the Alcoholics’ Anonymous “Big Book” manual, M*A*S*H*, and the Nightmare on Elm Street movies are all, somehow, woven together. It is a kind of mega-text...a big, fat, funny, smart book that demands and rewards sustained attention.”—WIRED

“[A] generous, empathic, environmentalist, anti-capitalist book . . . Its core message to the reader is to try to get out of your head and reject the howling fantods, the solipsistic narrative of yourself you’re imprisoned by, that salvation from pain and self-loathing lies in turning off the screen and getting off the couch and throwing yourself into selfless action.”—GQ

"Uproarious...Infinite Jest shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything." —New York Times

"To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other." —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

"A work of genius...grandly ambitious, wickedly comic, a wild, surprisingly readable tour de force." —Seattle Times

"A virtuoso display of styles and themes...There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page." —Time

“To talk about the book as merely a prophecy of what the world would become does a disservice to the real, beating heart of the novel. . . it somehow manages to teach us what it means not just to live in this world, but survive it.”—AnOther Magazine

"The next step in fiction .. .Edgy, accurate,  and darkly witty ... Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." —The Atlantic