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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story

D. T. Max
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story Book PDF

Author : D. T. Max
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101601112

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The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace’s anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

D.T. Max
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story Book PDF

Author : D.T. Max
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847085887

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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max Pdf

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.

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

Daniel T. Max
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story Book PDF

Author : Daniel T. Max
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Novelists, American
ISBN : 9780670025923

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This book is a biography of an author who stuggled with depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, "Infinite Jest". The unique connections between Wallace's life and his writing is presented.

Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Stephen Burn
Conversations with David Foster Wallace Book PDF

Author : Stephen Burn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617032271

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Conversations with David Foster Wallace by Stephen Burn Pdf

Conversations with the author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Infinite Jest

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

D. T. Max
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Author : D. T. Max
Publisher : Random House
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781588365583

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The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max Pdf

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. In England, cows attack their owners in the milking parlors, while in the American West, thousands of deer starve to death in fields full of grass. What these strange conditions–including fatal familial insomnia, kuru, scrapie, and mad cow disease–share is their cause: prions. Prions are ordinary proteins that sometimes go wrong, resulting in neurological illnesses that are always fatal. Even more mysterious and frightening, prions are almost impossible to destroy because they are not alive and have no DNA–and the diseases they bring are now spreading around the world. In The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, essayist and journalist D. T. Max tells the spellbinding story of the prion’s hidden past and deadly future. Through exclusive interviews and original archival research, Max explains this story’s connection to human greed and ambition–from the Prussian chemist Justus von Liebig, who made cattle meatier by feeding them the flesh of other cows, to New Guinean natives whose custom of eating the brains of the dead nearly wiped them out. The biologists who have investigated these afflictions are just as extraordinary–for example, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a self-described “pedagogic pedophiliac pediatrician” who cracked kuru and won the Nobel Prize, and another Nobel winner, Stanley Prusiner, a driven, feared self-promoter who identified the key protein that revolutionized prion study. With remarkable precision, grace, and sympathy, Max–who himself suffers from an inherited neurological illness–explores maladies that have tormented humanity for centuries and gives reason to hope that someday cures will be found. And he eloquently demonstrates that in our relationship to nature and these ailments, we have been our own worst enemy.

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace
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Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316175296

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The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time. "The Pale King is by turns funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing." --Laura Miller, Salon

Leo

Mac Barnett
Leo Book PDF

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452139555

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“A fearful ghost, a take-charge girl, an interracial friendship, and a tale in which fear is . . . sweetly tied to positive qualities of imagination.” —The New York Times You would like being friends with Leo. He likes to draw, he makes delicious snacks, and most people can't even see him. Because Leo is also a ghost. When a new family moves into his home and Leo's efforts to welcome them are misunderstood, Leo decides it is time to leave and see the world. That is how he meets Jane, a kid with a tremendous imagination and an open position for a worthy knight. That is how Leo and Jane become friends. And that is when their adventures begin. This charming tale of friendship—from two of the best young minds in picture books: the author of the Caldecott Honor–winning Extra Yarn and the illustrator of the Bologna Ragazzi Award–winning Josephine—is destined to become a modern classic that will delight readers for years to come. “Enchanting.” —The Washington Post “A whimsical tale from Barnett aptly accompanied by enthralling artwork by Robinson.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A tender, touching story of friendship and the power of imagination.” —Booklist, starred review “Warm and wise.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “This deceptively simple story examines deep themes of perception and truth, friendship and loyalty.” —Shelf Awareness, starred review “A pleasure to read aloud.” —Wall Street Journal “There is nothing spooky about this moving story of friendship, acceptance, and belonging.” —Boston Globe A New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

Vintage

Steve Berman
Vintage Book PDF

Author : Steve Berman
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Gay teenagers
ISBN : 9781590210536

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A lonely seventeen-year-old who has dreamed of meeting a different and special boy desperately seeks help from his friend Trace, a Goth girl, to free him from the clutches of a handsome ghost he has met on a rural New Jersey highway.

The Swallow: A Ghost Story

Charis Cotter
The Swallow A Ghost Story Book PDF

Author : Charis Cotter
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770495920

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The Swallow: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter Pdf

A classic ghost story with twists and turns: a spooky house, a malevolent spirit and two plucky heroines. In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Polly is a down-to-earth dreamer with a wild imagination and an obsession with ghosts; Rose is a quiet, ethereal waif with a sharp tongue. Despite their differences, both girls spend their days feeling invisible and seek solace in books and the cozy confines of their respective attics. But soon they discover they aren't alone--they're actually neighbors, sharing a wall. They develop an unlikely friendship, and Polly is ecstatic to learn that Rose can actually see and talk to ghosts. Maybe she will finally see one too! But is there more to Rose than it seems? Why does no one ever talk to her? And why does she look so ... ghostly? When the girls find a tombstone with Rose's name on it in the cemetery and encounter an angry spirit in her house who seems intent on hurting Polly, they have to unravel the mystery of Rose and her strange family... before it's too late.

Ghost Story

Peter Straub
Ghost Story Book PDF

Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101989203

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past... What was the worst thing you’ve ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

Borges, a Life

Edwin Williamson
Borges a Life Book PDF

Author : Edwin Williamson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114333615

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Borges, a Life by Edwin Williamson Pdf

Short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) revolutionized the literature of Latin America almost single-handedly and left a legion of readers and admirers worldwide.Based on an unprecedented range of interviews and on research into previously unknown or unavailable resources, this is the first biography in any language to encompass the entire span of Borges’s life and work. In Borges, Edwin Williamson brings to life the little known human side of the writer: his ancestral roots in Argentina, his relations with family and friends, his passions and despairs, and the evolution of his political ideas. By correlating this new biographical information with Borges’s literary texts, Williamson also reconstructs the dynamics of his inner world—the conflicts, desires, and obsessions that drove the man and shaped his work. This major new study finally unlocks the mysteries that have obscured the life of Borges. The result is a compelling and often poignant portrait that will radically transform our views of this modern master.

Jade Green

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689820052

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While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression has caused mysterious happenings.

Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

Rex Collings
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories Book PDF

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 184022066X

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This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Stonewords

Pam Conrad
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Author : Pam Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0140363785

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Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.

One For Sorrow

Mary Downing Hahn
One For Sorrow Book PDF

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781328699022

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One For Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn Pdf

Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie makes other friends and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie. Elsie dies from influenza, but then she returns to reclaim Annie's friendship and punish all the girls who bullied her. Young readers who revel in spooky stories will relish this chilling tale of a girl haunted by a vengeful ghost.