Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace / D.T. Max.
2012
PS3573.A425635 Z83 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace / D.T. Max.
Author
Max, D. T. (Daniel T.)
ISBN
9780670025923 hardcover
0670025925 hardcover
0670025925 hardcover
Imprint
New York : Viking, c2012.
Language
English
Description
x, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS3573.A425635 Z83 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54 B
Summary
"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 Written with the cooperation of Wallace's family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and audio tapes, this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a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. "-- Provided by publisher.
"The first biography of the renowned American author David Foster Wallace. Wallace was one of the most innovative and influential authors of the last twenty-five years. A writer whose distinctive style and example had a huge impact on the culture and helped give meaning to his generation in a disorienting, distressing time. In this first in-depth biography, journalist D.T. Max captures Wallace's compelling, turbulent life and times--his genius, his struggle to stay sane and happy in a difficult world, his anxiety and loneliness--as well as why he mattered as a writer and a human being."--Publisher information.
"The first biography of the renowned American author David Foster Wallace. Wallace was one of the most innovative and influential authors of the last twenty-five years. A writer whose distinctive style and example had a huge impact on the culture and helped give meaning to his generation in a disorienting, distressing time. In this first in-depth biography, journalist D.T. Max captures Wallace's compelling, turbulent life and times--his genius, his struggle to stay sane and happy in a difficult world, his anxiety and loneliness--as well as why he mattered as a writer and a human being."--Publisher information.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.
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Table of Contents
"Call me Dave"
"The real 'Waller'"
"Westward!"
Into the funhouse
"Please don't give up on me"
"Unalone and unstressed"
"Roars and hisses"
The Pale King.
"The real 'Waller'"
"Westward!"
Into the funhouse
"Please don't give up on me"
"Unalone and unstressed"
"Roars and hisses"
The Pale King.