I kid you not, that book is seriously good. (I'm only a quarter way through it at the moment.) Beat down the door of your bookstore in urgent quest of a copy.
I haven't read Mr Foster Wallace, but he sounds dangerously American to me.
Thank you. If you like that, you'll certainly like my man's stuff. A gem on every page, in every paragraph. It's my bedside book at the moment, and I'm avidly forging through it.