Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace

Name: Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace
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ISBN: 9780147509727

ISBN-10: 0147509726

ISBN-13: 9780147509727

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Authors: D. T. Max

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The acclaimed New York Timesbestselling biography and emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, David Foster Wallace has become more than the representative writer of his literary generationhe has become a symbol of sincerity and honesty in an inauthentic age, a figure whose reputation and reach grow by the day. In this compulsively readable biography, D. T. Max charts 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. Written with the…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.44" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface: Considering the Writer



"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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Works by Wallace


Index