1996

INFINITE JEST By David Foster Wallace
1,079 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $29.95.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES;A Country Dying of Laughter. In 1,079 Pages.
By MICHIKO KAKUTANIFEB. 13, 1996
BOOKS OF THE TIMES;A Country Dying of Laughter. In 1,079 Pages. - The New York Times

Perfect, however, "Infinite Jest" is not: this 1,079-page novel is a "loose baggy monster," to use Henry James's words, a vast, encyclopedic compendium of whatever seems to have crossed Mr. Wallace's mind.