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ISBN 978-0-14-750972-7 $17.00 ($18.00 CAN)
Biography 5 1 /2 x 8 7 /16 368 pp.
Rights: E00 Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02592-3
On sale: 8/27/2013
SuGGeSTeD ORDeR
“ Well-crafted, insightful . . .
very much embodies the life and spirit of
Wallace.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“ All readers, even those who
know nothing of Wallace,
will be moved.”
—The Wall Street Journal
also availaBle fRoM Penguin:
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
978-0-14-311693-6 $17.00
ClassiC Penguin
18 SePTeMBeR
The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling
biography and “emotionally detailed
portrait of the artist as a young man”
(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
new york times bestseller
Every Love Story Is a
Ghost Story
A Life of David Foster Wallace
D. T. Max
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 generation—he 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 cooperation
of Wallace family members and friends and with access to
hundreds of Wallace’s unpublished letters, manuscripts, and
journals, this revelatory biography illuminates the unique
connections between Wallace’s life and his fiction in a gripping
and deeply moving narrative that will transfix readers.
n Chosen by Michiko Kakutani as one of the best books of the year
n Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, San
Francisco Chronicle, Slate, the Economist, and the Daily Beast
n Visit dtmax.com
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.
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