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The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch

Cover of The Pale King
Popularity 49

The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.

Civil serviceOffice politicsFictionFiction, humorousFiction, psychologicalFiction, biographicalIllinois, fictionnyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-04-17New York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewedFiction, humorous, general