The Resource Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max
Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max
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The item Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- 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 will speak 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 fucking 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 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 352 p.
- Contents
-
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Call Me Dave"
- ch. 2 "The Real `Waller'"
- ch. 3 "Westward!"
- ch. 4 Into the Funhouse
- ch. 5 "Please Don't Give Up on Me"
- ch. 6 "Unalone and Unstressed"
- ch. 7 "Roars and Hisses"
- ch. 8 The Pale King
- Isbn
- 9781847084941
- Label
- Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace
- Title
- Every love story is a ghost story
- Title remainder
- a life of David Foster Wallace
- Statement of responsibility
- D.T. Max
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 will speak 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 fucking 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 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Max, D. T.
- Dewey number
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Wallace, David Foster
- Authors, American
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Call Me Dave" -- ch. 2 "The Real `Waller'" -- ch. 3 "Westward!" -- ch. 4 Into the Funhouse -- ch. 5 "Please Don't Give Up on Me" -- ch. 6 "Unalone and Unstressed" -- ch. 7 "Roars and Hisses" -- ch. 8 The Pale King
- Control code
- 000049911531
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 352 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781847084941
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Label
- Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Call Me Dave" -- ch. 2 "The Real `Waller'" -- ch. 3 "Westward!" -- ch. 4 Into the Funhouse -- ch. 5 "Please Don't Give Up on Me" -- ch. 6 "Unalone and Unstressed" -- ch. 7 "Roars and Hisses" -- ch. 8 The Pale King
- Control code
- 000049911531
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 352 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781847084941
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
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