{"product_id":"infinite-jest","title":"Infinite Jest","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword by Tom Bisell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46349856538816,"sku":"9780316066525","price":18.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0667\/5231\/5584\/files\/9780316066525.jpg?v=1746172051","url":"https:\/\/bookpop.shop\/products\/infinite-jest","provider":"Book Pop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}