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 of Woolf or Joyce. Wallace's
finest work as a novelist' Time 'Light-years beyond Infinite Jest.
Wallace's reputation will only grow, and like one of the broken
columns beloved of Romantic painters, The Pale King will stand,
complete in its incompleteness, as his most substantial fictional
achievement' Hari Kunzru, Financial Times 'A paradise of language
and intelligence' The Times 'Archly brilliant' Metro 'Teems with
erudition and ideas, with passages of stylistic audacity, with
great cheerful thrown-out gags, goofy puns and moments of truly
arresting clarity. 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 sentence, almost word for
word, Wallace could out-write any of his peers' Scotland on Sunday
David Foster Wallace wrote the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom
of the System, and the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief
Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair. His
non-fiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing
I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, This is Water and Both
Flesh and Not. He died in 2008.
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