Infinite Jest

Extraordinary... an astonishing and vast epic of contemporary American culture ― Guardian

A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything ― New York Times

An exploding star of a novel... reading the book is itself a sort of addiction... Wallace writes with authority, deep feeling and caustic wit ― Spectator

Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation ― Independent

Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure... sentences and whole pages are marvels of comic concentration... Wallace is a superb comedian of culture -- James Wood ― Guardian

A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction... the book's mixture of maniacal inventiveness and comic brio gradually becomes an addiction itself... Enormously readable and quite ridiculously entertaining... a book of our times -- Anthony Quinn ― Daily Telegraph

From the hilarious to the deliberately infuriating, Infinite Jest packs a considerable range of bawdy, satirical excursions... Wallace's central concerns are powerfully and disturbingly given form in the blurry hinterland where recreation meets slavery ― Times Literary Supplement

Scenes of gruesome hilarity and some of genuine tragedy... The most relevant portrayal of American culture to appear in recent years, Infinite Jest is fascinating, ridiculous and excruciating, and a stimulating injection into contemporary American culture ― Independent on Sunday

Wallace's prose, ebullient and complex, transmits at once the vitality and absurd decadence of his culture... as an assessment of America, the novel is both powerful and troubling ― The Times

One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory... a dystopian fantasy of the near future, a meditation about avant-garde cinema, a burlesque of North American politics and a critique of sports culture... positively sings with lyrical insight and wry humour ― Sunday Times

Funny, smart and perceptively written ― Observer

Massive, unflagging, ingenious, an eccentric portrait of America in decline, a study in addiction, a raucous comedy of manners and mania ― Esquire

Darkly comic ― GQ

An insight into modern addictions and spiritual frustrations ― New Woman

Wallace's theme is addiction: to drugs, to death, to entertainment. His compulsive style mixes erudite and slacker jargon, pseudoscience and urban slang (often in the same sentence) and always in precise detail. Rousing prose breathes on to every page ― W

Infinite Jest seems to fulfil every promise that David Foster Wallace displayed in his precocious and stunning The Broom of the System. If you want to know who's upholding the high comic tradition - passed down from Sterne to Swift to Pynchon - it's Wallace ― Jeffrey Eugenides

A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything ― NEW YORK TIMES

Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight ― James Woods, GUARDIAN

He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damn good ― Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN

One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory. ― SUNDAY TIMES