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Infinite Jest

Author(s): David Foster Wallace

Location(s): Boston, North America

Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future

Era(s): Near Future

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Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss .

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A light sci-fi “future” touch, this was huge in America. It is looooong but worth it – tennis thrown in, lots of interesting peeps. Locations aren’t the elements that drive this book, the prose...

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