The acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography and emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
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...