BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Pale King

    (By David Foster Wallace)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 25 MB (25,084 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 640 times
    Last checked 12 Hour ago!
    Author David Foster Wallace
    “Book Descriptions: The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.

    The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

    ★★★★★

    David Lipsky

    Book 1

    V.

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    Gravity’s Rainbow

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

    ★★★★★

    D.T. Max

    Book 1

    Underworld

    ★★★★★

    Don DeLillo

    Book 1

    The Crying of Lot 49

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    White Noise

    ★★★★★

    Don DeLillo

    Book 1

    Vineland

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    Wittgenstein's Mistress

    ★★★★★

    David Markson

    Book 1

    Mason & Dixon

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    Against the Day

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    Libra

    ★★★★★

    Don DeLillo

    Book 1

    The Corrections

    ★★★★★

    Jonathan Franzen

    Book 1

    J R

    ★★★★★

    William Gaddis

    Book 1

    Bleeding Edge

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Pynchon

    Book 1

    The Recognitions

    ★★★★★

    William Gaddis