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Little Brown and Company
April 2011
On Sale: April 15, 2011
560 pages
ISBN: 0316074233
EAN: 9780316074230
Hardcover
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Fiction
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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