First published 2011
Welcome to the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois. Here, David Foster Wallace navigates a maze of soul-crushing paperwork, absurd office politics, and the eccentric personalities that inhabit this strange world. As he delves into the banal details of tax law, he grapples with questions of meaning, purpose, and the nature of human existence. This unfinished novel from the late literary giant is a profound meditation on the search for fulfillment in the most unlikely of places.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, 21st-century, accounting, academic
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: existential-crisis, fish-out-of-water
592 pages · Paperback · Back Bay Books