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Wallace is not the first deceased author to have an unfinished work posthumously shaped into a hit. These concerns haven't stopped readers from gobbling up copies of the book, whose primary thematic preoccupation New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani described today as "an America plagued by tedium, monotony and meaningless bureaucratic rules and regulations that its citizens are in danger of dying of boredom." The Times reported yesterday that brick-and-mortar book vendors "erupted in protest" upon learning online outlets like Amazon (where it is currently the sixth bestselling book) were shipping The Pale Horse two weeks before its scheduled release date. "It's about boredom, for God's sake!" he wrote. When Pietsch described the setting and plot of the nearly 500 page novel last year-“an IRS tax-return-processing center in Illinois in the mid-1980s entry-level processors and their attempts to do their job in the face of soul-crushing tedium,” New York magazine's Lane Brown wondered if it would be endurable. In an interview with Time, Wallace's editor Michael Pietsch said he assembled the final version of the book by sifting through "bins and drawers and wire baskets" full of notes, outlines, and alternate versions left behind by the author. Two years after Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace (pictured right) committed suicide, Little, Brown and Company is posthumously publishing his unfinished novel, The Pale King.
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