Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace - Rilegato

D. T. Max

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ISBN 10: 184708494X ISBN 13: 9781847084941

Casa editrice: Granta Publications Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

In his lifetime, David Foster Wallace was lauded by critics and loved by fans. But even to those who had barely read his work, he was something of a cult figure. Since his suicide in 2008, Wallace has become the Kurt Cobain of the printed word, and his life and death now stand as symbols of a generation's hopes and their despair. In this compelling account of Wallace's evolution from anxious adolescent into post-modern anti-hero, D. T. Max speaks to those who knew him intimately and those who were drawn to him from afar to tell the story of a man struggling to write authentically about "what it is to be a f***ing human being" against the frenetic noise of modern life and the cavernous void of American culture. This is a story of drugs and depression, of madness, competitiveness, genius and creativity intertwined, of a man who felt profoundly lost but still found a way to capture this lostness in words and hold it defiantly aloft, like a flag for his generation.

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Recensione:

A supremely understated and magnificently comprehensive life of a remarkable writer... Tremendous -Sunday Times

A nuanced, deeply reported and fiercely sad book - Independent

An immensely moving and intellectually scrupulous biography ... Max is a compelling and subtle critic of the work - Scotsman

This is a fine piece of work ... detailed yet economical, shrewd and subtle about the writing... Max's sympathetic account of Wallace's life aches with the sense of a man who found it incredibly hard just living day-to-day in the world --Literary Review

A superb biography... that feels fresh rather than hurried... It not only brings Wallace to life, it brings the work into play as well. Max is a very smart writer - Observer

Very, very good... Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is relatively discreet about the details of Foster Wallace s eventual suicide, but I m not sure I ve read anything that makes the deep structural reasons for a suicide so apparent- David Baddiel, The Times

Scrupulous and affecting-Financial Times

An elegant tribute. Restrained and incisive, his book is respectful without succumbing to hagiography ... Mr Max s biography reminds readers of what has been lost in the untimely death of this rare and serious writer --Economist

L'autore:

D. T. MAX is a journalist and essayist who is a staff writer at the New Yorker, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, and the LA Times. His previous book with Portobello was The Family That Couldn't Sleep (2007). www.dtmax.com

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• Editore: Granta Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 184708494X
• ISBN 13: 9781847084941
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272