Daring, hilarious... a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok. - The New York Times

Wonderful... a cathartic experience with lots of laughs and lots of deeper meanings. - The Washington Post Book World

Information on the author: David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis at Amherst College. He received an MFA from the University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion, as well as the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.