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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670025925

ISBN-139780670025923

eBay Product ID (ePID)113418957

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Book TitleEvery Love Story Is a Ghost Story : Alife of David Foster Wallace

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicPsychopathology / Depression, Literary, American / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorD. T. Max

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight19.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-008488

Reviews Praise for Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story "All dedicated readers of contemporary American literature will know the tragic, haunting and ultimately unfathomable story of David Foster Wallace, the prodigiously gifted writer - no, genius - who reshaped the contours of both the novel and long-form nonfiction in his far-too-brief life. D. T. Max has now provided answers to the questions that can be answered and asked, with tact and grace, the ones that can't. His biography is a model of deep scholarly excavation and acute sensitivity, an exemplary feat of literary portraiture." -James Atlas, author of Bellow: A Biography "This book is vey well-researched, deeply sympathetic, and incredibly painful to read. We should feel grateful that this story was told by someone as talented and responsible as D.T. Max." -Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King "This book should be handed to anyone who wants to write, if only to remind the aspiring writer that becoming a voice of generational significance turns out to be very poor insulation indeed from struggle, fear, and despair. D. T. Max is beautifully attuned to Wallace's strengths, whether personal or literary, and bracingly clear-sighted on his flaws. The result is a book that's moving, surprising (Wallace voted for Reagan?), and hugely disquieting. If you love Wallace's work, you obviously need to read this book; if you don't love Wallace's work, you especially need to read this book." -Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things "A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times--the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room." -Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life "I'd worried that by making David Foster Wallace less mythic, D. T. Max would make him smaller. But the accretion of well-chosen details makes Wallace greater: a complete human being, one whom these superbly reported pages allow us to know rather than to worship. And that makes his loss even more unbearable." -Anne Fadiman, author of At Large and At Small "This a book about being human, living human, writing human -- Wallace's own subjects -- and chronicles with real compassion the complex, fierce joy Wallace took in being alive. A treat for Wallace fans and anyone who cares about the prose of our time." -Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat "Building on his acclaimed New Yorker profile, Max draws on his unparalleled access to sources--from friends and family members to previously unpublished notes and letters--and renders a life and literary portrait that fans will devour and critics will find indispensable. Through the grace of D. T. Max's clear prose readers will know Wallace and miss him as never before." -Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill "D.T. Max's biography is a touchingly sad story, well and honorably told, and consistently full of the human warmth that David Foster Wallace longed for, in his life and his work-- a longing he could never quite satisfy in either." -Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Color of Night

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54 B

SynopsisThe first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace's tormented, anguished and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest. Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, Wallace has become more than the quintessential writer for his time--he has become a symbol of sincerity and honesty in an inauthentic age. In the end, as Max shows us, what is most interesting about Wallace is not just what he wrote but how he taught us all to live. Written with the cooperation of Wallace's family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and audio tapes, this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a goodbye.

LC Classification NumberPS3573.A425635Z83