His parents were divorced when he was young, so his mother moved with him to Boston.
Their father was also a tennis player who founded the Enfield Tennis Academy, where Orin went to school as a child. The Incandenza family is made up of a physicist father and an English professor mother. Hal looks back to this moment as an example of her anxiety that lies just beneath the surface of her normally composed exterior. His mother freaked out, which is unusual because she usually portrays herself as calm and collected in public. Hal’s story begins when he was a young boy and swallowed some mold from his family basement.
The novel opens with Hal Incandenza undergoing an admissions interview at the University of Arizona, but he seems to have a panic attack and gets rushed to hospital immediately. A novel that’s hard to summarize, Infinite Jest begins with a scene at the latest chronological point in its story: in the “Year of Glad,” which is the final year of nine-year Subsidized Time calendar in O.N.A.N., a nation made up of parts of the former United States and Canada.
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