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Fiction · Postmodernism

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace
1996 · 970 pages

Somewhere there is a film so entertaining that anyone who watches it stops eating. Wallace chases it through a tennis academy and a halfway house full of addicts he writes with real love.

★ 7.7