“WALLACE’S ACHIEVEMENT WAS TO MAKE THINKING ABOUT THE FACTS OF POSTMODERN LIFE… ONE OF THE KEENEST PLEASURES OF BEING ALIVE”: FIRST EDITION OF INFINITE JEST, SIGNED BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
WALLACE, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown, (1996). Thick octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket.
First edition of Wallace’s epic postmodern satire—“jubilantly anecdotal, winkingly sardonic” (New York Times)—in scarce first-issue dust jacket, boldly signed on the title page by the author, who has crossed through his printed name.
The "buzzing, claustrophobic energy" of Infinite Jest, Wallace's "mammoth 1,079-page satire of America," immediately placed him in the company of Pynchon and DeLillo (Wall Street Journal). Here, as in all of his work, "Wallace's achievement was to make thinking about the effects of postmodern life, and thinking about thinking about them, one of the keenest pleasures of being alive" (Slate). One year after publication of this acclaimed novel, a work hailed as "jubilantly anecdotal, windingly sardonic and self-consciously literary… Wallace received a MacArthur Foundation grant, the so-called genius award" (New York Times). Wallace died tragically at age 46 in 2008. First issue, with uncorrected "Vollman" on dust jacket rear panel.
A fine copy.