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Something to do with paying attention
Call Number
- FICTION WALL (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First McNally Editions paperback.
Publication Information
New York : McNally Editions, 2021.
Physical Description
xi, 136 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"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--published in 2011 as The Pale King. 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.'"--Container.
Notes
A posthumously published novella with a title supplied by the publisher.
Originally published as chapter 22 of: The pale king. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2011.