Girl with Curious Hair
David Foster Wallace
(Author)
Description
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
February 17, 1996
Pages
384
Dimensions
5.51 X 8.26 X 0.9 inches | 0.64 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393313963
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About the Author
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was the New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System, and Girl with Curious Hair. His essays and stories have appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, Playboy, Paris Review, Conjunctions, Premiere, Tennis, the Missouri Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He received numerous awards, including the Whiting Award, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the QPB Joe Savago New Voices Award, and the O. Henry Award.
Reviews
A collection of stories as varied in length and theme as they are imaginative, and downright bizarre as any collection by one author has a right to be.... Truly funny surreal humor.--Benedict Cosgrove
These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in.--Madison Smartt Bell
Mr. Wallace brings us, time and again, to hidden, mythic places that are strange yet oddly familiar. He succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction.--Jennifer Levin
These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in.--Madison Smartt Bell
Mr. Wallace brings us, time and again, to hidden, mythic places that are strange yet oddly familiar. He succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction.--Jennifer Levin
