{"product_id":"something-to-do-with-paying-attention","title":"Something to Do with Paying Attention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Foster Wallace's last finished work--\"the most unusual conversion experience in confessional narrative\" (Judith Shulevitz,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel--some 1,100 pages of loose chapters, sketches, notes, and fragments--published in 2011 as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut the unfinished \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e did contain a finished novella that Wallace had already considered publishing as a stand-alone volume. It is the story of a young man, a self-described \"wastoid,\" adrift in the suburban Midwest of the 1970s, whose life is changed forever by an encounter with advanced tax law. It is, as Sarah McNally writes in her preface, \"not just a complete story, but the best complete example we have of Wallace's late style, where calm and poise replace the pyrotechnics of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and other early works.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42479817392365,"sku":"9781946022271","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/71WGDuXY5fL.jpg?v=1645698570","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/something-to-do-with-paying-attention","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}