Gardner’s autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness written with Quincy Troupe, is a great read. It is uplifting and full of life lessons. It is uplifting and full of life lessons. However, the book contains a few descriptions of Mr. Gardner’s sex life and two or three references to drug use. PROSPECT PARK - BROOKLYN - AN EARLY SPRING MORNING An eclectic Group ranging in age from 30 to 80 gather in rows performing the ancient Chinese martial art of TAI CHI.

“The Pursuit of Happiness” is a biopic that tells of a man named Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman. After investing all his life savings in buying portable bone density scanners, which what was supposed to bring him riches, instead turns into his life support as many medical industries felt no need for such medical devices. As financial burdens creep up on him in the process, it caused him to lose both his wife and home. Even after landing as an intern for a brokerage firm, the job does not offer him any pay. Refusing to give in into financial hardships, he tries to give a better life for him and his son by finding different types of methods to earn money. The director for this movie is Gabriele Muccino, an Italian film director that became a successful American film maker. This movie is a biopic of Chris Gardner on his struggles of being a homeless single father.

News about poverty are often unreported and even if it is covered, the severity of the situation in these reports are often undermined. I have been in many voluntary works and seen the severity of such situations, one of the experiences was being a volunteer to help the neediest in Cambodia back when I was in Secondary 3. Therefore, I feel this movie is a perfect example to show the severity of people living in poverty.

The overall theme of this film is Poverty. I have chosen this theme as the movie portrays the struggles of being poor with no financial aiding and the extent the father went through to provide food, water and shelter for his son.

This movie reminded me of the past experiences working my father, when I was watching the scenes where Chris Gardner tries to sell his scanners by walking from door to door in medical buildings. These experiences made me feel the stress and burden the job had on my father, till the point that my father eventually fell ill from working. Although my financial background was far from what was portrayed in the movie, it still made me feel the need to appreciate everything that he has given to me, starting from the smallest thing like water and electricity. As a son to my parents, I should repay what they have given me by working hard in my studies and ensure that their efforts to uphold our family will not be wasted. And as for my mother that has worked hard relentlessly for the past 18 years, just by mopping the floor during my free will help to lift her burdens. These small actions should be adopted by me as it will help my parents better cope the stress of raising a family. This film has also made me realize the importance of time. As time is limited, it made me feel the need to cherish the time I have with my family. After watching the movie, I felt the need to go out with my family more often and talk to them rather than just staying in my room and play my games. Games can be stopped and played later, but the time with my family should be cherished as they are limited. My experiences in Cambodia have made me better understand the severity of poverty. However, I usually find myself waiting for my school to host such voluntary work and the thought of finding these opportunities for myself never really crossed my mind. There are many people out there still that needed our help and joining voluntary groups in nearby community centers can help me to take my first step into helping needy groups.

Poverty is a factor that someone is unable to financially support himself. Coming from a decent household, I have never felt the need to rely on government for financial support, however, scenes in the movie when Chris tried to get into a shelter for the homeless, but instead it was found out to be fully occupied, really gets me thinking about the extent of the government in helping the homeless and the financially unstable households. I have always thought that America would be almost free of poverty, due to the many television shows that I love to watch that have portrayed America as a dream country. However, a search in US Census Bureau found that 15% of its people are living in poverty. Just like Chris in the movie, people in the US are living in poverty due to low wage incomes, with families of four earning less than $23,000 annually and half the jobs in America paying less than $34,000 a year. To me, it was a surprising find, and I have realized that poverty in America has always been a tough issue to fix unless decent wages are being paid to aid these people. Furthermore, poverty is not just an issue in America, but it is happening worldwide. Linking back to my experiences in Cambodia, people in Cambodia survives through agriculture which does not even provide a decent wage. Education system in Cambodia is also undermined whereby only 37.1% of its people can read, write and speak. Just like the scene from the movie whereby Chris is asked to fill in his resume with his education status, and he said that he didn’t need so much lines, today, there are many countries that are still lacking in education, countries such as Cambodia and China which contributes to the rise of low wage salaries due to insufficient jobs that pays decent wage salaries. Therefore, this movie can be link to the poverty that in is present in today’s society.

As this movie is a biopic of Chris Gardner, the director’s intention is to tell Chris Gardner’s experience in poverty. However, I feel that there is an underlying intention in the movie. Other than to show the extend parents can go just to provide the necessity for their children, another intention could be that the director want to show that the determination of constantly seeking for opportunities to succeed in life will result in life-changing opportunities to appear.

Based on the actual life of Chris Gardner, the costumes used in the movie are very relatable today, from people wearing formal clothing when working to homeless people wearing rugged clothes and pants. The make-up used in the movie are very subtle such as the homeless getting dirt and sand all over their faces and arms which plays an important role in depicting their social status.

The behaviors of the character in this movie are portrayed realistically just like the scene after Chris was hit by a car and left with him limping on his way to fetch his son from daycare. There were also subtle aggressive behaviors such as Chris and the homeless man fighting for the vacancy in the shelter. Chris also portrays a sense of nervousness that the manager called him up for a meeting that will decide his job.

As this movie took place in San Francisco, most of the scenes were filmed on location which makes the movie much more realistic, just like the scene where Chris is chased by the taxi driver and run through a park to evade from him. The small confined space of the office provides a mood of stress and pressure when Chris was trying to sell bank accounts to his customers to get the upper hand in landing his job.

There were several props that play a significant role in the movie. The rubric’s cube was one the item as it plays an important role in impressing the manager so that Chris can get an interview for the job, which changed his life. Another prop would be the scanner, and its importance can only be described as his only financial support for his family.

The diegetic sound in the movie such as the splashing of water when Chris is bathing and the sound of door bashing when the father and son was sleeping in the public toilet makes the movie feel more inclusive and realistic. Non-diegetic sounds such as the melancholic background music being played when Chris lost his scanner in the subway has an emotional impact on the viewers which helps the viewers to be engrossed in the movie.

When the Chris was in the shelter for the homeless, he tried to study under the dim conditions. The lightings in that scene were high in contrast which made the viewer’s focus more on him as compared to his surroundings.

When the father and son were spending the night in the toilet, the camera was zoomed in onto Chris, which the viewers can see the important details of shock and helplessness from Chris’ face.

The scene which the camera was pointing at Chris from the top makes the viewer’s feel that Chris is vulnerable and helpless.

When Chris was running away from the taxi, the camera was jerking, which makes the viewer’s felt like they were running in the movie.

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The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts

• Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
• Release : 1978
• Pages : 333
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Columns originally published in Newsweek and the Washington Post which deal with human nature and contemporary American life and politics.

Watch on the Right

• Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
• Release : 1991
• Pages : 333
• ISBN : 9780299128104
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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The ascendancy of conservatism in the last twenty years is an unprecedented episode in American intellectual and political history. In Watch on the Right, J. David Hoeveler Jr. gives us enlightening, often immensely entertaining, portraits of the key thinkers behind this 'revolution.' As Hoeveler writes, 'conservative thinkers hang their hats on many different racks,' and this book dramatizes for us the breadth of the conservative coalition as exemplified by the eight writers surveyed: William F. Buckley Jr. George Will, Robert Nisbet, Irving Kristol, Hilton Kramer, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., and Michael Novak. These eight 'gurus' of the right represent a very wide spectrum of conservative thought, but Hoeveler also considers the present-day conservative renaissance against the literary background that has given the movement its identity since Edmund Burke. Amid the multiple voices unifying themes do emerge. American conservatives share a hostility toward the liberal 'new class'--the professional media and academic elites and the entrenched government bureaucracies that still believe in the perfectibility of society by enforced social engineering. Moreover, conservatives of all persuasions are united in struggling to sustain traditional values against the onslaught of revolutionary capitalism and technology, and all are profoundly hostile to imperialistic communism on the Soviet model. Despite the existence of a generic conservatism, however, Hoeveler's portraits provide us with a fascinating tour of the shifts and turns in modern social thought from the decline of liberalism in the late 1960s to the current era--a path that leads through such diverse areas as the Cold War, bourgeois culture, art and aesthetics, civil rights and the welfare state, New Age culture, and the gender revolution. To a whole generation that has never known anything but conservative leadership, Watch on the Right will explain, in clear accessible prose, how the movement flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. For readers who saw it happen (but never thought it would) and for liberals (who are feverishly trying to recover 'their ' mandate), this book as no other pulls the ideological threads of the story together. Watch on the Right is illustrated with delightful pen-and-ink caricatures.

The Postmodernist Turn

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 2004-01-01
• Pages : 225
• ISBN : 0742542564
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked and even their perceptions of reality. In this reassesment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for American thought and culture in the 1970s. The book examines major developments in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, and painting as expressions of a 1970's consciousness.

Politics by Other Means

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release : 1994
• Pages : 257
• ISBN : 9780300059205
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture. Partisans of the academic left, who hold our culture responsible for the evils of society, have attempted to redress imbalances by fostering multiculturalism in education. In this eloquent and passionate book a distinguished scholar criticizes these positions and calls for a return to the tradition of independent thinking that he contends has been betrayed by both right and left. Under the guise of educational reform, says David Bromwich, these groups are in fact engaging in politics by other means. Bromwich argues that rivals in the debate over education have one thing in common: they believe in the all-importance of culture. Each assumes that culture confers identity, decides the terms of every moral choice, and gives a meaning to life. Both sides therefore see education as a means to indoctrinate students in specific cultural and political dogmas. By contrast, Bromwich contends that genuine education is concerned less with culture than with critical thinking and independence of mind. This view of education is not a middle way among the political demands of the moment, says Bromwich. Its earlier advocates include Mill and Wollstonecraft, and its roots can be traced to such secular moralists as Burke and Hume. Bromwich attacks the anti-democratic and intolerant premises of both right and left--premises that often appear in the conservative guise of 'preserving the tradition' on the one hand, or the radical guise of 'opening up the tradition' on the other. He discusses the new academic 'fundamentalists' and the politically correct speech codes they have devised to enforce a doctrine of intellectual conformity; educational policy as articulated by conservative apologists George Will and William Bennett; the narrow logic of institutional radicalism; the association between personal reflection and social morality; and the discipline of literary study, where the symptoms of cultural conflict have appeared most visibly. Written with the wisdom and conviction of a dedicated teacher, this book is a persuasive plea to recover a true liberal tradition in academia and government--through independent thinking, self-knowledge, and tolerance of other points of view.

America in Quotations

• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 2003-07-16
• Pages : 227
• ISBN : 078641586X
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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'America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do'--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). 'Americans will pay a big price for an invention that will help them save time they don't know what to do with'--Anonymous. This collection of quotations--both serious and humorous--about America is divided into 19 main topics: The Nation, The American People, Places, Nature, Mind, The Individual, Human Relations, Social Life, Culture and Media, Literature and Language, Religion and Belief, Past and Future, History, War and the Military, International Relations, Politics and Government, Law and Order, Business and Economy, and Food. Each main topic is divided into subtopics; for example, 'Culture and Media' has these: Architecture, Art, Charlie Chaplin, Dance, Fashion, Intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Music, Elvis Presley, and Television. The author attributes each quote to its speaker, author or composer, and wherever possible, provides the date of the quote and the name of the work in which it was published. In the case of uncertainty about the exact date of a quote, the author provides the birth and death dates of the person to whom the quote is attributed. Also included are a keyword and subject index and a speaker index.

Harm to Others

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 1990-05-31
• Pages : 416
• ISBN : 0198021232
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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The final volume of Feinberg's four-volume work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law examines the philosophical basis for the criminalization of so-called 'victimless crimes' such as ticket scalping, blackmail, consented-to exploitation of others, commercial fortune telling, and consensual sexual relations.

Socialism and Christianity, Sober Thoughts for All who are Concerned in the Welfare of Our Industry

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• Release : 1882
• Pages : 42
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The Limits of Idealism

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 2007-08-28
• Pages : 265
• ISBN : 0585296014
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist. In the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating its faults. When I encounter its limitations, it is consequently with deep regret and continued surprise. How, I ask myself, is it possible that that which seems so fight can be a chimera? And why, I wonder, aren't people as courageous, smart, or nice as I would like? The pain of realizing these things is sometimes so intense that I want to close my eyes and lose myself in the kinds of daydreams that comforted me as a youngster. One thing is clear, my need to come to grips with my idealism had its origin in a lifetime of naivet6. From the beginning, I wanted to be a 'good' person. Often when life was most treacherous, I retreated into a comer from whence I escaped into reveries of moral glory. When I was very young, my faith was in religion. In Hebrew school, I took my lessons seriously and tried to apply them at home. By my teen years, this had been replaced by an allegiance to socialism. In the Brooklyn where I grew up, my teachers and relatives made this seem the natural course. When I reached my twenties, however, and was obliged to confront a series of personal deficiencies, psychotherapy shouldered its way to the fore.

Sober Thoughts on Staple Themes

• Publisher :
• Release : 1889
• Pages : 159
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The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions

• Publisher : Touchstone
• Release : 1983-10-01
• Pages : 397
• ISBN : 9780671457129
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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The noted conservative columnist and essayist summons the nation to be a responsible capitalism, calls for an elevated political leadership, and analyzes various trends, attitudes, phenomena, and personalities at large in the country today

The Pursuit of Happiness

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 2010-06-15
• Pages : 512
• ISBN : 9781439199145
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara, an independent, outspoken young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, a man whose world view was vastly different than that of Eric and his friends. This chance meeting between Sara and Jack and the choices they both made in the wake of it would eventually have profound consequences, both for themselves and for those closest to them for decades afterwards. Set amidst the dynamic optimism of postwar New York and the subsequent nightmare of the McCarthy era, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great, tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices and the random workings of destiny.

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Burritt's Citizen of the World

• Publisher :
• Release : 1855
• Pages : 329
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• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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THE GREAT GATSBY (1925 Edition)

• Publisher : e-artnow
• Release : 2017-12-06
• Pages : 218
• ISBN : 8027235669
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The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in 1925. It follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

In Pursuit of Joy

• Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
• Release : 2014-07-30
• Pages : 116
• ISBN : 1631354213
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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“In Pursuit of Joy is one of the most compelling books I have read in the last ten years. Gary Green tells his own deeply moving story of a journey from depression and alcohol problems to a life of peace with himself and the world. Although this is one man’s story, it applies to any of us who have ever felt alone with our problems, that we are unlovable in some way, and that there is no way out of the maze. Mr. Green shares the different paths that eventually led him out of his own maze, ranging from the philosophical to the psychological to the spiritual, never preaching, but always inviting people to find their own way to lead a richer, more joyful life. This book speaks directly to the heart of the matter and, uniquely, to the heart of the reader. If Mr. Green, a self-described ‘regular guy,’ can recover his life, maybe we all can.” Susan Gingerich, co-author of The Illness Management and Recovery Program, The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia, Coping Skills Group, and Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia.

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The Pursuit of Happiness

• Publisher :
• Release : 1893
• Pages : 292
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• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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Happiness Is a Serious Problem

• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 2009-10-13
• Pages : 192
• ISBN : 0061744883
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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In this unique blend of self-help and moral philosophy, perfect for fans of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project or Dan Harris’ 10% Happier, talk-radio host Dennis Prager shows us that happiness isn’t just a value—it’s a moral obligation. When you ask people about their most cherished values, “happiness” is always at the top of the list. In this enduring happiness manifesto, Prager examines how happiness not only makes us better people, but has an effect on the lives of everyone around us—providing them with a positive environment in which to thrive and be happy themselves. Achieving that happiness won't be easy, though: to Prager, it requires a continuing process of counting your blessings and giving up any expectations that life is supposed to be wonderful. 'Can we decide to be satisfied with what we have?' he asks. 'A poor man who can make himself satisfied with his portion will be happier than a wealthy man who does not allow himself to be satisfied.' Prager echoes other political commentators in complaining that too many people today see themselves as victims; he submits that the only way to achieve your desires is to take responsibility for your life rather than blaming others. If you're willing to put some thought into achieving a happier outlook, you will find plenty to mull over in Happiness Is a Serious Problem.

The Happiness Trap

• Publisher : Exisle Publishing
• Release : 2013
• Pages : 284
• ISBN : 1921966343
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.

Everything Is F*cked

• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 2019-05-14
• Pages : 288
• ISBN : 0062888471
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness. What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t—and worst of all, that our modern and maddening urge to always find happiness only served to make us unhappier. Instead, the “subtle art” of that title turned out to be a bold challenge: to choose your struggle; to narrow and focus and find the pain you want to sustain. The result was a book that became an international phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide while becoming the #1 bestseller in 13 different countries. Now, in Everthing Is F*cked, Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive. He openly defies our definitions of faith, happiness, freedom—and even of hope itself. With his usual mix of erudition and where-the-f*ck-did-that-come-from humor, Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven’t considered before. It’s another counterintuitive romp through the pain in our hearts and the stress of our soul. One of the great modern writers has produced another book that will set the agenda for years to come.

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Infinite Jest

• Publisher : Back Bay Books
• Release : 2009-04-13
• Pages : 1104
• ISBN : 9780316073851
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

Alcoholics Anonymous

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• Release : 2012-08
• Pages : 410
• ISBN : 9781258461805
• Language : En, Es, Fr & De

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