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The Pale King (posthumously)

David Foster Wallace

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#3478 of 8,085 books · #1743 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2012).

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.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141942896
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Boredom and monotonyBureaucracy and the IRSMeaning in everyday life

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