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Also by D. T. Max:

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, September 2012
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep, September 2006
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EVERY LOVE STORY IS A GHOST STORY
By: D. T. Max

A Life of David Foster Wallace

Viking Adult
September 2012
On Sale: August 30, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 0670025925
EAN: 9780670025923
Kindle: B007V65ODE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

The 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 Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and audio tapes, this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a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.

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On Point - December 27, 2012
All Things Considered - September 2, 2012