2011

THE PALE KING
By David Foster Wallace
548 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $27.99.

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By MICHIKO KAKUTANI MARCH 31, 2011
‘The Pale King’ by David Foster Wallace - Book Review - The New York Times

By turns breathtakingly brilliant and stupefying dull ― funny, maddening and elegiac ― “The Pale King” will be minutely examined by longtime fans for the reflexive light it sheds on Wallace’s oeuvre and his life.