The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Pale King is David Foster Wallaces final novel - a testament to his enduring brillianceThe 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 Wallaces towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac New York TimesA bravura performance worthy of Woolf or Joyce. Wallaces finest work as a novelist TimeLight-years beyond Infinite Jest. Wallaces 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 TimesA paradise of language and intelligence The TimesArchly brilliant MetroTeems 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 Wallaces arrives once in a generation, if that Daily TelegraphIn 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 SundayDavid 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 Ill Never Do Again, Everything and More, This is Water and Both Flesh and Not. He died in 2008. Notes Paperback edition of Wallaces posthumously published final work, which was put together after his death in 2008 from his unfinished manuscript. From the author of the cult classic Infinite Jest. Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegaic. The New York Times Author Biography David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. His final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. He is also the author of the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair, and his non-fiction includes several essay collections and the full-length work Everything and More. Review One of the strangest, saddest, most haunting things Ive ever read * Guardian *Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac * The New York Times *Innovative, penetrating, forcefully intelligent fiction like Wallaces 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 *Rich and substantial and alive . . . Wallaces finest work as a novelist * Time *A transfixing and hyper-literate descent into relentless, inescapable despair . . . achingly funny, nothing short of sublime * Publishers Weekly *The Pale King contains whats sure to be some of the finest fiction of the year . . . he was the closest thing we had to a recording angel * GQ *Sometimes as a critic the most important part of your job is to say: here, this is it, weve found it, someones doing it. That someone was Wallace. He was the real thing * Evening Standard *The Pale King gave me a pleasure and excitement that I can describe only as biological. That is to say, the book produced in me that very rare, warm, head-to-toe tingling that comes with admission to a paradise of language and intelligence -- Joseph O Neill * The Times *Remarkable -- Jonathan Derbyshire * New Statesman *Everyone who cares about literature should buy it * The Age * Details ISBN0141046732 Author David Foster Wallace Year 2012 ISBN-10 0141046732 ISBN-13 9780141046730 Media Book Pages 592 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1962 Death 2008 Language English Short Title PALE KING Residence CA, US DEWEY 813.54 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2012-04-05 AU Release Date 2012-04-05 NZ Release Date 2012-04-05 Publication Date 2012-04-05 Alternative 9780141972503 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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