Author
David Foster Wallace
1 award win, 3 nominations across 3 books.
American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
Infinite Jest
Published 2005-10-28 · 1104 pages
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
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La ragazza dai capelli strani
Published 2003-11-01 · 300 pages
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The Pale King
Published 2011-04-15 · 592 pages
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
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