The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

The Pale King David Foster Wallace ebook
ISBN: 9780316074230
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Page: 560
Format: pdf

If you're a fan of David Foster Wallace, then you've likely been reveling in the plethora of articles and reviews that have flooded media outlets surrounding the release of his unfinished posthumous novel, The Pale King. David Foster Wallace Little, Brown 2011. The Pale King: Monologues from the Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace. Agents battling extreme boredom at a processing center in Peoria, Ill. And, yes, even so, it's still very good. The feature's major newsy takeaway, of course, is the fact that The Pale King — the novel Wallace was working on when he died — will be released in some form next year. You can't read The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's final novel, without thinking of the author's death. But you should, indeed, read it. That passage from The Pale King, filled with humor and wit and intelligence, is one more example why David Foster Wallace was one of the great writers of the last 20 or so years. David Foster Wallace anatomized boredom in "The Pale King," his posthumously published final work. The posthumous unfinished novel of David Foster Wallace, published on April 15, follows a group of I.R.S. Yes, it's very apparent that David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel The Pale King is unfinished. The structure then partly seems to be that the characters in The Pale King work at the “IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois,” but their stories are told (partly) through their childhoods.