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The Pale King

Foster, Wallace David more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Imprint: Penguin
Publication Date: 28/03/2012
Place of Publication: Australia

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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, 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 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 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 imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts.

'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.

Title: The Pale King
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Contributors: By (author) Wallace David Foster

ISBN 13: 9780143203599
ISBN 10: 0143203592

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Imprint: Penguin
Publication Date: 28/03/2012
Place of Publication: Hawthorn, Australia
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BIC Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 813.00 (DC23) ; 813.00 (DC22) ; a823.00 (DC22)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 564
Height: 230mm
Width: 152mm

Year: 2012