When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novelsome 1,100 pages of loose chapters, sketches, notes, and fragmentspublished 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 Wallaces late style, where calm and poise replace the pyrotechnics of Infinite Jest and other early works.

Format: Paperback
Published: US, 2022
Publisher: McNally
Pages: 152
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781946022271
ISBN 10: 1946022276