i am looking for a long sci-fi book where years are sponsored by corporations.?

[zack]

i think is has the words joy or sadness or perpetual or something like that in the title.

 

[Steve]

Would it be "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace? I'd heard of years being given names, but have never read it. The hardback is apparently 1079 pages, which certainly qualifies as "long".

It took a lot of Googling to find, so I hope it's right. It turned up on the second page of this query:

site:wikipedia.org book science fiction "year of" name