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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace - D.T. Max
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid 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... show more
The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid 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 Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and audio tapes, this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a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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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780670025923 (0670025925)
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
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"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it
3.0 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story - DT Max on David Foster Wallace
I liked this well enough, but there's a reason I've not read it until now. Something to do with never get too close to your (literary or otherwise) heros... The interesting parts are about the inner workings of his writing. I'd have rated it much higher if it was just that. I do wish a psychiatr...
JeffreyParis
JeffreyParis rated it
I like how hated this book is in the reviews, at least most of the first dozen or so. It probably deserves most of the criticism. Still, I enjoyed reading it. I would have appreciated a bit more specifics about when certain stories were written or drafted, and of course all of the horrid, unfulfi...
Major Leser
Major Leser rated it
3.0 Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Not a bad biography, just not a literary one.
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
Nothing great here, but it was interesting to learn things I did not know. Three stars here means I liked it, which I gratefully did. However, I am not the biggest fan of DT Max, but then again it is I who stands firmly in the camp of the reliably loyal Gordon Lish fans and his athletic supporters. ...
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