first edition
2011 · New York
by Wallace, David Foster
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. First edition. Fine/Fine. Publisher's black paper boards. Slight fading to top edge of boards. Still a Fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket.
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's final novel, is a bizarre, nonlinear exploration of depression and ennui in American bureaucracy, at times focusing on the lives of IRS employees in Illinois in 1985. The novel was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012 (alongside Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams), but the prize was ultimately not awarded that year. Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 7181)
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's final novel, is a bizarre, nonlinear exploration of depression and ennui in American bureaucracy, at times focusing on the lives of IRS employees in Illinois in 1985. The novel was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012 (alongside Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams), but the prize was ultimately not awarded that year. Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 7181)