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A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest – with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart

‘We will likely not see another book like this in our lifetimes’ Michelle Zauner, bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and frontwoman for Japanese Breakfast

Tennis prodigy Hal Incandenza and recovering addict Don Gately are consumed by the same obsession: their search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything else …

‘Extraordinary… an astonishing and vast epic of contemporary American culture’ Guardian
‘Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation’ Independent
‘An exploding star of a novel’ Spectator
‘A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction’ Daily Telegraph

Publisher Review

One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory. * SUNDAY TIMES * He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damn good * Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN * Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight * James Woods, GUARDIAN * A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything * NEW YORK TIMES *