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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
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to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and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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