David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books : Fictions of Value.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Note on the Texts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Living Transaction: Value, Ground, and Balancing Books -- 1. Come to Work: Capitalist Fantasies and the Quest for Balance in The Broom of the System -- 2. New Deals: (The) Depression and Devaluation in the Early Stories -- 3. Dei Gratia: Work Ethic, Grace, and Giving in Infinite Jest -- 4. Other Math: Human Costs, Fractional Selves, and Neoliberal Crisis in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men -- 5. His Capital Flush: Despairing Over Work and Value in Oblivion -- 6. E Pluribus Unum: Ritual, Currency, and the Embodied Values of The Pale King -- Conclusion: In Line for the Cash Register with Wallace -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In original readings of all of Wallace's fiction, from The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest to his story collections and The Pale King, Severs reveals Wallace to be a thoroughly political writer whose works provide an often surreal history of financial crises and economic policies.

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