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

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

Tremendous ... Luminously tying Wallace's writings to his life, Max builds a superb picture of why he was so tormented, in a supremely understates and magnificently comprehensive life of a remarkable writer. --Sunday Times

Engaging and tinged with sadness. --Evening Standard

David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone worth reading, revering, following. How had a teen tennis prodigy turned ace philosophy student turned novelist managed to become a generation-defining star? And how painful was that process for him? What was it that he stood for that chimed with so many? And how much did his, and his country's, addictions defeat him? D. T. Max was determined to find out, and this scrupulous and revealing biographical study, which draws on conversations with those closest to Wallace and on extensive archive material, is the haunting result.