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

D.T. Max | Littérature et Arts | Penguin Group | Date de parution: 2012| ISBN-13: 9780670025923 | Couverture: Rigide | Anglais | 356 pages

"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 should be handed to anyone who wants to write, if only to remind the aspiring writer that becoming a voice of generational significance turns out to be very poor insulation indeed from struggle, fear, and despair. D. T. Max is beautifully attuned to Wallace's strengths, whether personal or literary, and bracingly clear-sighted on his flaws. The result is a book that's moving, surprising (Wallace voted for Reagan?), and hugely disquieting. If you love Wallace's work, you obviously need to read this book; if you don't love Wallace's work, you especially need to read this book."

-TOM BISSELL, author of The Father of All Things

"A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit."

-BLAKE BAILEY, author of Cheever: A Life

"The first great biography of David Foster Wallace. Building on his acclaimed New Yorker profile, Max draws on his unparalleled access to sources-from friends and family members to previously unpublished notes and letters-and renders a life and literary portrait that fans will devour and critics will find indispensable."

-EVAN WRIGHT, author of Generation Kill

"I'd worried that by making David Foster Wallace less mythic, D. T. Max would make him smaller. But the accretion of well-chosen details makes Wallace greater: a complete human being, one whom these superbly reported pages allow us to know rather than to worship. And that makes his loss even more unbearable."

-ANNE FADIMAN, author of At Large and At Small

"This book is very 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