The Pale King Summary
David Foster Wallace

Everything you need to understand or teach The Pale King by David Foster Wallace.

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The Pale King Summary

The Pale King is an unfinished novel and as such presents only a tentative plot. Much of the novel's material is tangential or unrelated to the main narrative plot action. For this reason, the novel is best read as a tone or texture novel and not a novel overly concerned with plot. The central character of the novel is one David Foster Wallace, who narrates major sections of the novel and...

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