D.T. Max is a staff writer for the New Yorker. He lives outside of New York with his wife, two small children and rescued beagle who came to them named Max. He is the author of The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery (Random House) and Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Viking), to be released in paperback in September 2013.
The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart 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.
Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, Wallace has become more than the quintessential writer for his time—he has become a symbol of sincerity and honesty in an inauthentic age. In the end, as Max shows us, what is most interesting about Wallace is not just what he wrote but how he taught us all to live. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and audio tapes, this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a goodbye.
發表於2024-12-22
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4 stars only gave to the author's writing, not attributing to DFW's life. He chose how he exited, not the way you might have wanted for him, but I empathised it's a cogitated closing on his part, a final relief.
評分被自己的天纔摺磨的天纔
評分天纔都差不多,凡人各有各的平凡。
評分一般。這本傳記按照時間順序講述瞭DFW的一生。整體來看有點淺顯。最大的問題是在不重要的地方無用細節太多,而在關鍵的事件和人生轉摺點上很多時候竟然一筆就帶過。我覺得想要真的瞭解DFW還是去看他的書吧,他可以說是一個“人書閤一”的作傢,他的思想應該都在他的書裏。
評分as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a goodbye.
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