Donna Seaman's review of The Pale King over at Booklist Online is a positive one but includes enough spoilers that I would recommend avoiding it for the time being:
The overture to Wallace’s unfinished last novel is a rhapsodic evocation of the subtle vibrancy of the midwestern landscape, a flat, wind-scoured place of potentially numbing sameness that is, instead, rife with complex drama. The Pale King is a feverishly encompassing, sharply comedic, and haunting work painstakingly assembled out of pieces rough and polished by Wallace’s longtime editor, Michael Pietsch.
Continue reading with spoiler warning.
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