Literary Fiction
by David Foster Wallace
Set in a near-future America at an addicts' halfway house and an elite tennis academy, Wallace's maximalist epic dissects entertainment, addiction, and the elusive nature of happiness. The novel's labyrinthine structure includes hundreds of endnotes, multiple storylines, and a dysfunctional family at the heart of American culture's absurdities. Considered one of the defining novels of the 1990s, it's both wickedly funny and devastatingly profound.
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