{"title":"David Foster Wallace","description":"David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel,  Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,  and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.","products":[{"product_id":"the-pale-king-an-unfinished-novel-hardcover","title":"The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/em\u003e remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1996. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, the essay collections \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2011.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.68 x 9.45 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101641642207,"sku":"9780316074230","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/famHhVDKVK9780316074230.webp?v=1781199017"},{"product_id":"brief-interviews-with-hideous-men-hardcover","title":"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women.\u003cbr\u003e Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, \u003ci\u003e Infinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOblivion, \u003c\/i\u003ethe essay collections \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101666644191,"sku":"9780316925419","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WhEJ304gnV9780316925419.webp?v=1781201046"},{"product_id":"infinite-jest-30th-anniversary-edition-paperback","title":"Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Zauner\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling sensation \u003ci\u003eCrying in H Mart\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e is one; this is the other.\" --Stephen King, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, \u003ci\u003eInfinite\u003c\/i\u003e Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human--and one of those rare books that renews the idea of what a novel can do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Uproarious ... Infinite Jest shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer ... who can seemingly do anything.\" \u003cb\u003e―Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The next step in fiction ... Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty ... Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.\" \u003cb\u003e--Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's \"100 Best Novels\" (1923--2005)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, \u003ci\u003e Infinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOblivion, \u003c\/i\u003ethe essay collections \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.5 x 9.3 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102270591199,"sku":"9780316602921","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BEZELcDCxs9780316602921.webp?v=1781782336"},{"product_id":"something-to-do-with-paying-attention-paperback","title":"Something to Do with Paying Attention - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSarah McNally\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Enthralling . . . Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace's] best non-fiction . . . You open [the] text and it wakes. What is alive in it passes to the living. His attention becomes our attention.\" --Patricia Lockwood, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid 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, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, which became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the unfinished \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah McNally\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the publisher of McNally Editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104910938335,"sku":"9781946022271","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y_Q7CBayv9781946022271.webp?v=1783671323"},{"product_id":"girl-with-curious-hair-paperback","title":"Girl with Curious Hair - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/em\u003e is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily \"real,\" almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108720185567,"sku":"9780393313963","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YBKUqR-L-p9780393313963.webp?v=1781233061"},{"product_id":"string-theory-david-foster-wallace-on-tennis-a-library-of-america-special-publication-hardcover","title":"String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, \"the best mind of his generation\" (A. O. Scott) and \"the best tennis-writer of all time\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a \"near-great\" junior player. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276772442335,"sku":"9781598534801","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wZaE9qiEW9781598534801.webp?v=1787882213"},{"product_id":"the-broom-of-the-system-paperback","title":"The Broom of the System - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The \"dazzling, exhilarating\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel from one of the most groundbreaking writers of his generation, \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369182101727,"sku":"9780143129448","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/o9yx_lUSuS9780143129448.webp?v=1789139301"},{"product_id":"brief-interviews-with-hideous-men-paperback","title":"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women.\u003cbr\u003eWallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In this exuberantly acclaimed collection he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369548021983,"sku":"9780316925198","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kIpdtcEegi9780316925198.webp?v=1789143360"},{"product_id":"the-pale-king-an-unfinished-novel-paperback","title":"The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \"breathtakingly brilliant\" novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e is by turns funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing.\" --Laura Miller, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369615065311,"sku":"9780316074223","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BoH8kiNpbQ9780316074223.webp?v=1789143482"},{"product_id":"oblivion-stories-paperback","title":"Oblivion: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the stories that make up \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (\"The Soul Is Not a Smithy\"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (\"The Suffering Channel\"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (\"Oblivion\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369622634719,"sku":"9780316010764","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mr_NppBufU9780316010764.webp?v=1789143497"},{"product_id":"girl-with-curious-hair-hardcover","title":"Girl with Curious Hair - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace's debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/em\u003e, provoked comparisons to Pynchon, Coover, DeLillo, and Tom Robbins for its intellectual reach and ambition and antic spirit, and marked him as a young writer to watch. The stories in his first collection of short fiction, \u003cem\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/em\u003e, represent an early flowering of \u003cem\u003epost-\u003c\/em\u003epostmoderism: visions of the world that reimagine reality with the eerily compelling presence of a holograph and the up-to-the-second feeling of the most advanced art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369823600863,"sku":"9780393027570","price":61.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KAJCuoYVAa9780393027570.webp?v=1789146695"},{"product_id":"infinite-jest-hardcover","title":"Infinite Jest - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America, with a foreword by Tom Bissell.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e is one; this is the other.\" --Stephen King, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human--and one of those rare books that renews the idea of what a novel can do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Uproarious ... \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer ... who can seemingly do anything.\" ―\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The next step in fiction ... Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty ... Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think.\" \u003cb\u003e--Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's \"100 Best Novels\" (1923--2005)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it. People die happily, viewing it in endless repetition. The novel Infinite Jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have many budding addictions of their own. As the novel unfolds, various individuals, organizations, and governments vie to obtain the master copy of Infinite Jest for their own ends, and the denizens of the tennis school and the halfway house are caught up in increasingly desperate efforts to control the movie - as is a cast including burglars, transvestite muggers, scam artists, medical professionals, pro football stars, bookies, drug addicts both active and recovering, film students, political assassins, and one of the most endearingly messed-up families ever captured in a novel. On this outrageous frame hangs an exploration of essential questions about what entertainment is, and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment interacts with our need to connect with other humans; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. The huge cast and multilevel narrative serve a story that accelerates to a breathtaking, heartbreaking, unforgettable conclusion. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the very idea of what a novelcan do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370459201759,"sku":"9780316920049","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AwdKiTJ9-C9780316920049.webp?v=1789161378"},{"product_id":"both-flesh-and-not-essays-paperback","title":"Both Flesh and Not: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by \"one of America's most daring and talented writers\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e): \u003ci\u003eBoth Flesh and Not\u003c\/i\u003e gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNever has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; \u003ci\u003eTerminator 2\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best of the Prose Poem\u003c\/i\u003e; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated novels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoth Flesh and Not\u003c\/i\u003e restores Wallace's essays as originally written, and it includes a selection from his personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375564128479,"sku":"9780316182386","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wW8GNd9B0L9780316182386.webp?v=1789203744"},{"product_id":"quack-this-way-david-foster-wallace-bryan-a-garner-talk-language-and-writing-hardcover","title":"Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace \u0026 Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes of their second and final evening together, in February 2006. It was DFW's last long interview, and the only one devoted exclusively to language and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376132653279,"sku":"9780991118106","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8xz_DXfjwS9780991118106.webp?v=1789214273"},{"product_id":"quack-this-way-david-foster-wallace-bryan-a-garner-talk-language-and-writing-paperback","title":"Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace \u0026 Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes of their second and final evening together, in February 2006. It was DFW's last long interview, and the only one devoted exclusively to language and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376133243103,"sku":"9780991118113","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ER-LpIGNRU9780991118113.webp?v=1789214274"},{"product_id":"consider-the-lobster-and-other-essays-paperback","title":"Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis celebrated collection of essays from the author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest \u003c\/i\u003eis \"brilliantly entertaining...\u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer\" (\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once.\" --Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376636297439,"sku":"9780316013321","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/c8VlXVcb4F9780316013321.webp?v=1789218222"},{"product_id":"both-flesh-and-not-hardcover","title":"Both Flesh and Not - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by \"one of America's most daring and talented writers\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e): \u003ci\u003eBoth Flesh and Not\u003c\/i\u003e gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNever has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; \u003ci\u003eTerminator 2\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best of the Prose Poem\u003c\/i\u003e; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated novels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoth Flesh and Not\u003c\/i\u003e restores Wallace's essays as originally written, and it includes a selection from his personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376636821727,"sku":"9780316224116","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/balNF9OEHi9780316224116.webp?v=1789218222"},{"product_id":"a-supposedly-fun-thing-ill-never-do-again-essays-and-arguments-paperback","title":"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese widely acclaimed essays from the author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376638263519,"sku":"9780316925280","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1-IJuTe7U-9780316925280.webp?v=1789218226"},{"product_id":"the-best-american-essays-paperback-1","title":"The Best American Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist; the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity; the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America; and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his introduction, David Foster Wallace makes the spirited case that \"many of these essays are valuable simply as exhibits of what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets -- whether these involve the 17-kHz ring tones of some kids' cell phones, the language of movement as parsed by dogs, the near-infinity of ways to experience and describe an earthquake, the existential synecdoche of stagefright, or the revelation that most of what you've believed and revered turns out to be self-indulgent crap.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376646127839,"sku":"9780618709274","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5UZ7wbY-E69780618709274.webp?v=1789218249"},{"product_id":"consider-the-lobster-and-other-essays-hardcover","title":"Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376674078943,"sku":"9780316156110","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zAWiUQmQlg9780316156110.webp?v=1789221660"},{"product_id":"everything-and-more-a-compact-history-of-infinity-hardcover","title":"Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this question not only surprised him but also shook the very foundations upon which math had been built. Cantor's counterintuitive discovery of a progression of larger and larger infinities created controversy in his time and may have hastened his mental breakdown, but it also helped lead to the development of set theory, analytic philosophy, and even computer technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376764682463,"sku":"9780393003383","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fgABAbAKK69780393003383.webp?v=1789225278"},{"product_id":"everything-and-more-a-compact-history-of-infinity-paperback","title":"Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, \u003cem\u003eEverything and More\u003c\/em\u003e is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory. Through it all, Wallace proves to be an ideal guide--funny, wry, and unfailingly enthusiastic. Featuring an introduction by Neal Stephenson, this edition is a perfect introduction to the beauty of mathematics and the undeniable strangeness of the infinite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376768909535,"sku":"9780393339284","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZZ-4ZjEnxN9780393339284.webp?v=1789225288"},{"product_id":"this-is-water-some-thoughts-delivered-on-a-significant-occasion-about-living-a-compassionate-life-hardcover","title":"This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in \u003ci\u003eThis is Water\u003c\/i\u003e. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/i\u003e, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377304142047,"sku":"9780316068222","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/25SzEg4l4g9780316068222.webp?v=1789232752"},{"product_id":"signifying-rappers-paperback","title":"Signifying Rappers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared \"an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap\/hip-hop.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. \u003ci\u003eSignifying Rappers\u003c\/i\u003e issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Back in print at last, \u003ci\u003eSignifying Rappers\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51382916939999,"sku":"9780316225830","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zJP1CE4NIV9780316225830.webp?v=1789293687"},{"product_id":"the-pale-king-large-type-large-print-hardcover","title":"The Pale King (Large type \/ large print) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \"breathtakingly brilliant\" novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e is by turns funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing.\" --Laura Miller, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51459884351711,"sku":"9780316177931","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HRcjUY4B_o9780316177931.webp?v=1790369520"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-foster-wallace.oembed?page=2","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}