The pale king

David Foster Wallace

Original title: The Pale King

earliest edition we have, 2011 Back Bay Books, 2012 550 pages

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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Editions we hold

The pale king edition · 2012 · Back Bay Books · 550 pages · 9780316074223
Pale King edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 592 pages · 9780143203599
Pale King edition · 2012 · Penguin Books, Limited · 592 pages · 9780141046730
The Pale King Lib/E audiobook · 2011 · Hachette Book Group · 9781609417321
The pale king edition · 2011 · Little, Brown and Co. · 944 pages · 9780316177931
The Pale King audiobook · 2011 · Little, Brown & Company · 16 pages · 9781609419752
The Pale King paperback · 2011 · Hamish Hamilton Ltd · 9780241145142
The Pale King edition · 2011 · Little, Brown · 548 pages · 9780316074230
Pale King edition · 2011 · Little Brown & Company · 592 pages · 9780316175296
The Pale King paperback · Penguin · 9780316212434

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