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Something to Do with Paying Attention

By (author) David Foster Wallace, Preface by Sarah McNally

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David Foster Wallace's last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force ""using the IRS the way Borges used the lipary and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world."" --John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ 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. This material was collated and published in 2011 as The Pale King, which became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 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.""

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Publisher | McNally Jackson Books
Published date | 5 Apr 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 152
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9460-2227-1
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BISAC | fiction / literary


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