TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,David Foster
TI  - Something to do with paying attention
SN  - 9781946022271
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - McNally Editions
KW  - Wallace, David Foster
KW  - United States
KW  - Internal Revenue Service
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Accountants
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Nineteen seventies
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Confessional fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Satirical literature
KW  - Novellas
N1  - A posthumously published novella with a title supplied by the publisher; Originally published as chapter 22 of: The pale king. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2011; "When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel-- some 1,100 pages of loose chapters, sketches, notes, and fragments--published in 2011 as The Pale King. But the unfinished King did contain a finished novella that Wallace had already considered publishing as a stand-alone volume." -- From front flap of wrap-around on softcover edition
N2  - But the unfinished King did contain a finished novella that Wallace had already considered publishing as a stand-alone volume. It is the story of a young man, a self-described "wastoid," adrift in the suburban Midwest of the 1970s, whose life is changed forever by an encounter with advanced tax law; A young man, a self-described "wastoid," is adrift in the suburban Midwest of the 1970s. His life is changed forever by an encounter with advanced tax law. -- wrap-around on softcover edition
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