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[[David Foster Wallace]]'s relentless [[Doorstopper]] of a novel, first published in 1996. '''''Infinite Jest''''' takes place in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|the not-too-distant future]], around the Enfield Tennis Academy and the neighboring Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (redundancy ''sic'') in suburban [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]]. Before he died, James Incandenza, founder of the ETA and film auteur, created a movie so mesmerizingly entertaining that the master copy is being sought as a weapon by Canadian terrorists and the US government. Dealing with issues like the nature of the self, family, emptiness and absence, addiction and recovery, and the minutia of tennis, there's just no way to adequately summarize this massively complex novel here. With nearly 100 pages of end notes, this may be one of the only novels for which you will need to use two bookmarks simultaneously.

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