Something to Do with Paying Attention

David Foster Wallace's last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force "using the IRS the...
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Something to Do with Paying Attention by Wallace, David Foster

Something to Do with Paying Attention

$18.00

Something to Do with Paying Attention

$18.00
Author: David Foster Wallace
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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."



Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.43h x 4.88w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781946022271


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022

About the Author
Wallace, David Foster: - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was the author of two finished novels, The Broom of the System (1987) and Infinite Jest (1996), six collections of stories and essays, two book-length essays in mathematics and philosophy, and one unfinished novel, The Pale King, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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