{"product_id":"pale-king","title":"Pale King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e is David Foster Wallace''s final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the 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, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac''  \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A bravura performance worthy of Woolf or Joyce. Wallace''s finest work as a novelist''  \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Light-years beyond \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e. Wallace''s reputation will only grow, and like one of the broken columns beloved of Romantic painters, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e will stand, complete in its incompleteness, as his most substantial fictional achievement''  Hari Kunzru, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A paradise of language and intelligence''  \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Archly brilliant'' \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Teems with erudition and ideas, with passages of stylistic audacity, with great cheerful thrown-out gags, goofy puns and moments of truly arresting clarity. Innovative, penetrating, forcefully intelligent fiction like Wallace''s arrives once in a generation, if that''  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''In a different dimension to the tepid vapidities that pass as novels these days. Sentence for sentence, almost word for word, Wallace could out-write any of his peers''  \u003ci\u003eScotland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Foster Wallace wrote the novels \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/i\u003e. His non-fiction includes \u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEverything and More\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e This is Water\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBoth Flesh and Not\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319912046974,"sku":"NW9780141046730","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141046730.jpg?v=1778655149","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/pale-king","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}