"The Pale King" is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his endur
ing brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peor
ia, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, au
dited and accounted for.
Here the workers fight a never-ending war against th
e urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the
quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, bri
lliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.
