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The Pale King

By David Foster Wallace

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 560

The late author's brilliance sparkles in this unfinished but expansive novel (pieced together from manuscripts after his death) set in an IRS office in Peoria, Illinois.

— Karen Holt

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