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The pale king

Paperback • 2012 • English • 1. edition

The pale king

By David Foster Wallace

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About the book

The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutiae 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.'Light-years beyond Infinite Jest. Wallace's reputation will only grow,...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780241962114

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The pale king

Format

Paperback

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