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The Pale King

an unfinished novel

by David Foster Wallace

28 pages · 2012

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About the book

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.

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