Infinite Jest

Den amerikanske fremtidsdystopi "Infinite Jest" følger blandt andet de tidligere misbrugere fra udslusningshjemmet Ennet House og de studerende fra det nærvedliggende elitære tennisakademi. Begge grupper er dybt optaget af at opspore den originale kopi af den sagnomspundne underholdningsfilm "Infinite Jest" - en film, der siges at være så farligt underholdende at enhver, der ser filmen vil falde i trance og dø i en tilstand af katatonisk henrykkelse. Hvad de ikke ved er, at de langt fra er de eneste interesseret i at fremskaffe filmen. En gruppe voldelige og radikale canadiske seperatister er nemlig i færd med at udtænke et terroristangreb mod USA med filmen som våben.

Den amerikanske fremtidsdystopi "Infinite Jest" følger blandt andet de tidligere misbrugere fra udslusningshjemmet Ennet House og de studerende fra det nærvedliggende elitære tennisakademi. Begge grupper er dybt optaget af at opspore den originale kopi af den sagnomspundne underholdningsfilm "Infinite Jest" - en film, der siges at være så farligt underholdende at enhver, der ser filmen vil falde i trance og dø i en tilstand af katatonisk henrykkelse. Hvad de ikke ved er, at de langt fra er de eneste interesseret i at fremskaffe filmen. En gruppe voldelige og radikale canadiske seperatister er nemlig i færd med at udtænke et terroristangreb mod USA med filmen som våben.

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

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