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The Pale King: The Unfinished Novel

The Pale King: The Unfinished Novel

David Foster Wallace
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The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote.  It is by turns "funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing (Laura Miller, Salon)." 

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.

"In this, his most emotionally immediate work, Wallace is on intimate terms with the difficulty of navigating daily life, and he conjures states of mind with the same sorcery he brings to pictorial description."  -  Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Año:
2011
Editorial:
Little, Brown and Company
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
548
ISBN 10:
0316175293
ISBN 13:
9780316175296
Archivo:
EPUB, 719 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2011
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