The Pale King
$25.66
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2012
Summary
David Foster Wallace’s final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious, hilarious novel.
David Foster Wallace’s last and most ambitious undertaking. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, Wallace learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143203599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143203592 |
| Author: | David Foster Wallace |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 438g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 131mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘He is almost certainly a genius… I started to think in Wallace-style sentences, and started to think that Wallace-style sentences are in fact the only sensible way of describing the world.’ - Sunday Times. ‘Monumental, almost unbearably poignant.’ - New Statesman.
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace wrote the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, and Girl With Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water.
Wallace was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. He died in 2008.
Praise for Wallace:
“One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction.” – Sunday Times
“One of the most influential novelists of his generation: capable of stunning articulacy, moral insight and industry.” – Independent
“A dense, agonised, brilliant and moving body of work. It seems miraculous, even heroic, that Wallace achieved what he did.” – Sam Leith, Literary Review
“One of those novelists who seem to push along the evolution of the form. You can recognize his prose style by a single sentence.” – Benjamin Markovits, Observer
“A wonderfully exuberant comic writer and ironist, a writer of boundless imaginative gifts. His work will continue to be read long into the future.” – Jason Cowley, New Statesman
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