Girl With Curious Hair
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's Remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real,"...
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Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393313963 (0393313964)
Publish date: March 19th 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 373
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Contemporary,
Americana,
Short Stories
I learned yesterday that a professional acquaintance was a friend of Wallace's for many years. I'm rather glad I didn't know that last September, or my newspaper would have asked me to write a story about this person's thoughts on Wallace's suicide. Oh, who am I kidding. I can only think of two, may...
The stories are quite good, but I'm a much bigger fan of both the novels and the nonfiction. If you're new to Wallace, start with A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments or Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays.
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