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Original Title:	The Pale King
ISBN:	0316074233 (ISBN13: 9780316074230)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011)

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

Hardcover | Pages: 548 pages

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Title	:	The Pale King
Author	:	David Foster Wallace
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 548 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2011 by Little, Brown & Company
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literature. Literary Fiction

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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.

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THE MONEY I DID NOT WANT3 years ago I noticed mysterious amounts were appearing in my current account. Regularly. Every week! They came from the tax office and they were tax credits. I hadn't applied for any tax credits. So I phoned them up. They said "We can't stop it unless we know what account these monies SHOULD be paid into and we won't know that until someone complains." I said well, what are you going to do? they said, we'll be in touch. So - last month I got a letter through the post

That there James Joyce fella recast the minutiae of existence to epic and heroic proportions, elevating the single day of an everyman into a heros odyssey. The Pale King too, is intense and dramatic in a similar vein. The drama is internalised, as the characters work through laborious tax issues, assessing optimal routines to identify where to expend their energies, where to scrutinise and focus and where not to squander their attentions in distracted ignorance.The novel opens with a character

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well, first off, whew! it has been entirely, inexplicably, unforgivably too long since i've read a new book! what the hell happened? the end of 2011 was terribly shitty in pretty much every sense, and 2012 has been wholly consumed getting zee komputerkorp up off the ground (i've got a company that makes computers...or a computer that makes companies...i forget the details). so, what have we here?chapter 46's long paean to aspergery goodness could have been pretty much lifted from any number of

"'The Human Heart is a Chump': Cataloging The Pale King"; Jenn Shapland works in the Ransom Center and writes in The Millions about her experience cataloging The Pale King archival material:http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/th...The final paragraph:"I dont know what people will find in these folders or how theyll choose to interpret this new installment to the record of Wallaces works. What Im certain they will discover is that within the boxes, numbered 36-41, lies not a single unfinished work

Well, wow. What an epic, wondrous book. I felt a breathless clarity, exhaustive elation, and all-over giddiness reading The Pale Kinga feeling unsurpassed in the overlong Infinite Jest (which could lose 300+ pages easily), the often wilfully opaque stories in Oblivion, or the CPU-on-speed attack of his floating eye essays. Might this have been (or be) the perfect distillation of all Foster Wallaces talents? All his strengths are here, in full bloomhis dizzying insights into the microbial