David Foster Wallace
The Pale King
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141046730
- author:
- David Foster Wallace
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 592
- Dimensions:
- 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
David Foster Wallace's final novel is a testament to his enduring brilliance, set in the Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here, the minutiae of a million daily lives are totted up, audited, and accounted for, as workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. This is a place where all human life is squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian. The Pale King is a towering, brilliant, and deeply moving novel that showcases Wallace's innovative and penetrating fiction. With its passages of stylistic audacity, great cheerful thrown-out gags, and moments of truly arresting clarity, this book is a paradise of language and intelligence. Innovative fiction like Wallace's arrives once in a generation, and this novel is a substantial achievement in its incompleteness.
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