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Infinite Jest
by WALLACE, David Foster
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- First
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
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Bedford, New York
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About This Item
SIGNED and Dated by Foster in the year before publication! In publisher's protective jacket. Contains Publisher's Contact Info on upper right cover. A copy of the "Special Galleys Signed by the Author," the ONLY COPY we've even seen dated in 1995. Wallace's second novel, considered his magnum opus, a lengthy and complex work with copious endnotes, some containing their own endnotes. A Very Near Fine copy with a few tiny smudges on paper edges. Small stain next to end of Walllace signature. Still in Publisher's protective Glasine cover. Unique signed Wallace acquisition! Book #C2135. $1450. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.
Synopsis
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel written by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis, substance addiction and recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising and popular entertainment, film theory, and Quebec separatism. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pen ultimate rare books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C2135
- Title
- Infinite Jest
- Author
- WALLACE, David Foster
- Format/binding
- Soft cover
- Book condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket condition
- Fine
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- belles-lettres;
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