大卫•福斯特 • 华莱士（David Foster Wallace, 1962—2008）美国作家，出生于纽约州伊萨卡市，在中西部地区长大。父亲是哲学教授，母亲是英语教授，他们会互相给对方读《尤利西斯》，给幼年的华莱士和他妹妹读《白鲸》，在家庭环境的熏陶下，华莱士自幼就对语言及写作充满兴趣。少年时热衷于网球运动，进入大学后专心研究数学逻辑和语义学，1985 年以优异成绩毕业于阿默斯特学院，获哲学和英语双学位，毕业论文之一是他的小说处女作《系统的扫帚》。1987 年获亚利桑那大学艺术硕士学位，后入哈佛大学攻读哲学博士学位，但因健康原因中途放弃。 1996年出版《无尽的玩笑》，上市一个月内即加印6次，至今畅销不衰。1993 年至 2002年间在伊利诺伊大学任英语副教授，2002年开始在加州波莫纳学院教授创意写作。2008年，在与抑郁症做了多年抗争后，华莱...(展开全部)

大卫•福斯特 • 华莱士（David Foster Wallace, 1962—2008）美国作家，出生于纽约州伊萨卡市，在中西部地区长大。父亲是哲学教授，母亲是英语教授，他们会互相给对方读《尤利西斯》，给幼年的华莱士和他妹妹读《白鲸》，在家庭环境的熏陶下，华莱士自幼就对语言及写作充满兴趣。少年时热衷于网球运动，进入大学后专心研究数学逻辑和语义学，1985 年以优异成绩毕业于阿默斯特学院，获哲学和英语双学位，毕业论文之一是他的小说处女作《系统的扫帚》。1987 年获亚利桑那大学艺术硕士学位，后入哈佛大学攻读哲学博士学位，但因健康原因中途放弃。 1996年出版《无尽的玩笑》，上市一个月内即加印6次，至今畅销不衰。1993 年至 2002年间在伊利诺伊大学任英语副教授，2002年开始在加州波莫纳学院教授创意写作。2008年，在与抑郁症做了多年抗争后，华莱...(展开全部)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . . 'Wallace's exuberance an...(展开全部)

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America, and touches on substance addiction recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising, popular entertainment, film theory, Quebec separatism, and tennis, among other topics. The novel includes 388 numbered ...(展开全部)

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 affec...(展开全部)

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America, and touches on substance addiction recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising, popular entertainment, film theory, Quebec separatism, and tennis, among other topics. The novel includes 388 numbered ...(展开全部)

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 affec...(展开全部)

Late one winter night, a father and child go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is as silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, they call to the mysterious nighttime bird. But there is no answer. Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling, you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes t...(展开全部)

Marv Wolfman is the former Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics. He is a longtime comic writer who had long runs on Tomb of Dracula for Marvel, which is where Blade the Vampire Hunter made his first appearance and New Teen Titans for DC Comics. Blade was later adapted to film form with Wesley Snipes in the starring role. Wrote the landmark DC Comic series Crisis on Infinite Earths....(展开全部)

Boy Wonder No More! Fired by Batman, Dick Grayson is adrift. Donning a brand-new uniform, he takes a new name and charts a course that makes the Boy Wonder a man. The acclaimed Batgirl: Year One and Robin: Year One writing team reunites with Nightwing penciller Scott McDaniel to tell the story of Nightwing: Year One. This 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects the entire saga...(展开全部)