Infinite Jest
Boston: Little Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 1,079 pp. First issue of Foster Wallace's magnum opus, widely considered a post-modern masterpiece, with $29.95 dust jacket price and with incorrect spelling of William Vollmann [misspelled as "Vollman"] on the rear dust jacket panel. A sharp copy.
In 2004, author Chad Harbach declared that, in retrospect, Infinite Jest "now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit." In a 2008 retrospective by The New York Times, Infinite Jest was described as "a masterpiece that is also a monster - nearly 1,100 pages of mind-blowing inventiveness and disarming sweetness. Its size and complexity make it forbidding and esoteric." Time Magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923. Fine / Fine. Item #201000
Price: $850.00