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The Pale King

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Description for The Pale King Paperback. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 414.

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance

The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.

'Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac' New York Times

'A bravura performance worthy ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141046730
SKU
9780141046730
Shipping Time
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99-3

About David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. His final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. He is also the author of the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair, and his non-fiction includes several essay collections ... Read more

Reviews for The Pale King
One of the strangest, saddest, most haunting things I've ever read
Guardian
Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac
The New York Times
Innovative, penetrating, forcefully intelligent fiction like Wallace's arrives once in a generation, if that
Daily Telegraph
In a different dimension to the tepid vapidities that pass as novels these days. Sentence for ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Pale King


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