Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Author(s): D. T. Max
In his lifetime, David Foster Wallace was lauded by critics and loved by fans. But even to those who had barely read his work, he was something of a cult figure. Since his suicide in 2008, Wallace has become the Kurt Cobain of the printed word, and his life and death now stand as symbols of a generation's hopes and their despair. In this compelling account of Wallace's evolution from anxious adolescent into post-modern anti-hero, D. T. Max will speak to those who knew him intimately and those who were drawn to him from afar to tell the story of a man struggling to write authentically about "what it is to be a fucking human being" against the frenetic noise of modern life and the cavernous void of American culture. This is a story of drugs and depression, of madness and creativity intertwined, of a man who felt profoundly lost but still found a way to capture this lostness in words and hold it defiantly aloft, like a flag for his generation.
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"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
D. T. Max is a journalist and essayist who is a staff writer at the New Yorker, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, and the LA Times. His previous book with Portobello was The Family That Couldn't Sleep (2007). w
General Fields
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- : Granta Books
- : Granta Books
- : 01 June 2012
- : 234mm X 156mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 30 September 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : D. T. Max
- : Hardback
- : 1012
- : 813.54
- : 272