The Pale King

By Michael Pietsch, David Foster Wallace

Subjects: Office politics, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, humorous, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Civil service, Illinois, fiction, Fiction, humorous, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-04-17, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, biographical

Description: The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.