- Civil service, Office politics, Fiction, Fiction, humorous
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
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Contemplative, open-ended, prestige and contemporary.
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company, Hachette Book Group, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781609419752
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American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
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