David Foster Wallace: The Pale King [2012] paperback LANGU He was a peerless writer

He was a peerless writer about food

With prose that is every bit as raw

His career began in an Irish showband at age fifteen

and dozens more that began crossing enemy lines during World War I

Economic environment

David Foster Wallace: The Pale King [2012] paperback LANGU He was a peerless writerThe Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster