A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Praise for David Foster Wallace’s novel

INFINITE

JEST

“The next step in fiction…. Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty…. Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.”

— Sven Birkerts, Atlantic Monthly

“Uproarious…. It shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything.”

— Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

“What weird fun Infinite Jest is to read…. Truly remarkable.”

— David Gates, Newsweek

“A virtuoso display…. There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page.”

— R. Z. Sheppard, Time

“A blockbuster comedy of substance abuse, family dysfunction, and tennis, set in the postmillennial future…. No other writer now working communicates so dazzlingly what life will feel like the day after tomorrow.”

— Gerald Howard, Elle

“A work of genius…. A grandly ambitious, wickedly comic epic on par with such great, sprawling novels of the 20th century as Ulysses, The Recognitions, and Gravity’s Rainbow.”

— Paul D. Colford, Seattle Times

“Exhilarating, breathtaking…. The book teems with so much life and death, so much hilarity and pain, so much gusto in the face of despair that one cheers for the future of our literature.”

— Dan Cryer, Newsday

“Infinitely readable, even better than its hype…. It shows signs, in fact, of being a genuine work of genius.”

— Will Blythe, Esquire

“Spectacularly good…. It’s as though Paul Bunyan had joined the NFL or Wittgenstein had gone on Jeopardy!”

— Walter Kirn, New York

“Brilliant…. Wallace’s talent is immense and his imagination limitless.”

— David Eggers, San Francisco Chronicle

“So brilliant you need sunglasses to read it, but it has a heart as well as a brain…. Infinite Jest is both a vast, comic epic and a profound study of the postmodern condition…. Wallace offers huge entertainment.”

— Steven Moore, Review of Contemporary Fiction

“Bigger, more ambitious, and better than anything else being published in the U.S. right now…. Infinite Jest unerringly pinpoints how Americans have turned the pursuit of pleasure into addiction.”

— David Streitfeld, Details

“Brashly funny and genuinely moving…. Infinite Jest will confirm the hopes of those who called Wallace a genius.”

— Bruce Allen, Chicago Tribune