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The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011. [1] It was planned as Wallace's third novel, and the first since Infinite Jest in 1996, but it was not completed at the time of his death. [2] Before his suicide in 2008, Wallace organized the manuscript and associated computer files in a ...
- David Foster Wallace
- 2011
Apr 10, 2012 · The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling 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 value of work and society -- through characters ...
- David Foster Wallace
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- Back Bay Books
Apr 14, 2011 · The outcome was as brilliant as it was sad — and the battle is the right one to engage in. THE PALE KING. An Unfinished Novel. By David Foster Wallace. 548 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $27.99 ...
David Foster Wallace’s posthumous, unfinished novel, “The Pale King,” was pieced together by his editor from pages and notes that the author left behind after he committed suicide in 2008.
The Pale King is a posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace, exploring the lives and work of IRS agents. It is a hilarious, fearless and original book that grapples with ultimate questions of life's meaning and value.
Apr 15, 2011 · The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling 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 value of work and society — through characters ...
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The Pale King. David Foster Wallace. Little, Brown and Company, 2011 - Fiction - 548 pages. 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 ...
