The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace

First published 2011 · 592 pages

About this book

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 service
  • Office politics
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, humorous
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Fiction, biographical
  • Illinois, fiction
  • New York Times bestseller

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