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David Foster Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241962110 ISBN 13: 9780241962114

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2012

Synopsis

Pale King

About this title

About the Author:

David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the short story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair. His non-fiction includes several essay collections and the full-length work Everything and More.

Review:

Achingly funny, nothing short of sublime * Publishers Weekly * Rich and substantial and alive . . . Wallace's finest work as a novelist * Time * The Pale King contains what's sure to be some of the finest fiction of the year . . . he was the closest thing we had to a recording angel * GQ * Brilliant observation, and comic aside, and satirical nuance and existential theorising tumble over each other for the reader's attention . . . as alive and affecting as anything Wallace wrote * Observer * Sometimes as a critic the most important part of your job is to say: here, this is it, we've found it, someone's doing it. That someone was Wallace. He was the real thing * Evening Standard * Although unfinished, this work refines Wallace's tradition as an originator of meticulously constructed sentences that simultaneously induce laughter, contemplation, empathy and sorrow, but which ultimately leave the reader somehow changed . . . [Wallace] was not only the greatest writer of his generation, but one of the most important thinkers of the age * Courier Mail * Everyone who cares about literature should buy it * The Age * The Pale King gave me a pleasure and excitement that I can describe only as biological. That is to say, the book produced in me that very rare, warm, head-to-toe tingling that comes with admission to a paradise of language and intelligence -- Joseph O' Neill * The Times * Remarkable -- Jonathan Derbyshire * New Statesman * Fragmented, challenging, humorous and typically digressive, it is perhaps the most intriguing work of fiction ever written about boredom * Financial Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241962110
• ISBN 13: 9780241962114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592