The pale king

an unfinished novel

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David Foster Wallace: The pale king (2011, Little, Brown and Co.)

944 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2011 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:
978-0-316-17793-1
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OCLC Number:
711683794

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The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.

10 editions

Subjects

  • Civil service
  • Office politics
  • Fiction