The pale king: an unfinished novel

✍ Scribed by David Foster Wallace

• Book ID: 100261871
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company;Little, Brown and Co., [Sold by Barnes & Noble]
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Edition: NOOKbook ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0316074233

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, IL, appear ordinary enough 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, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.

THE PALE KING remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for a writer who dared to take on the most daunting subjects the human spirit can imagine.

About the Author

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. He died in 2008.