Something to do with paying attention / David Foster Wallace ; with a preface by Sarah McNally.
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TextPublisher: New York : McNally Editions, 2021Description: xi, 136 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781946022271
- 1946022276
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
David Foster Wallace's last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force "using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world." --John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ
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. This material was collated and published in 2011 as The Pale King, which became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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. It is, as Sarah McNally writes in her preface, "not just a complete story, but the best complete example we have of Wallace's late style, where calm and poise replace the pyrotechnics of Infinite Jest and other early works."
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.
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.
"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.
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