Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780147509727)

The acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and "emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)

In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was "frightfully and thoroughly conventional," it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace's anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace's family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.

Author: D. T. Max
ISBN-10: 0147509726
ISBN-13: 9780147509727
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2013
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/25/2013 pg. 36

About the Author
D. T. Max is also the author of The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. A staff writer for the New Yorker, he lives outside New York City with his wife and two children.