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Pale King

Pale King Hardcover - 2011

by Wallace, David Foster

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Hamish Hamilton, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Pale King
  • Author Wallace, David Foster
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 547
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hamish Hamilton, London
  • Date 2011
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0241144809I4N00
  • ISBN 9780241144800 / 0241144809
  • Dimensions 9.45 x 6.38 x 1.81 in (24.00 x 16.21 x 4.60 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

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.