Description
David Foster Wallace’s last, unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the lipary 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.”
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: David Foster Wallace,Sarah McNally (Preface by)
Published: 04/05/2022
Publisher: McNally Editions
ISBN: 9781946022271
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 0.50″ H x 8.40″ L x 5.00″ W
About the Author
Sarah McNally is the publisher of McNally Editions.
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