Fiction
The Pale King
A Little, Brown paperback of David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel about IRS examiners in Peoria, Illinois, assembled from manuscripts after his death. The book is a study of boredom, attention, and the peculiar dignity of thankless work. It is also necessarily incomplete, which some readers find moving and others find maddening. The Little, Brown cover is spare and oversized, befitting a posthumous novel by a writer whose name has become an adjective. Ideal reader: the Wallace completist who can tolerate a novel that refuses to resolve, or the office worker who suspects heroism hides in the dullest procedures.
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