Girl with Curious Hair

by David Foster Wallace

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393027570
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/17/1989
Series:	Norton Paperback Fiction
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Foster Wallace (1962—2008) is the author of Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Everything and More, The Broom of the System, and other fiction and nonfiction. Among his honors, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award.

Date of Birth:

February 21, 1962

Date of Death:

September 12, 2008

Place of Birth:

Ithaca, NY

Place of Death:

Claremont, CA

Education:

B.A. in English & Philosophy, Amherst College, 1985;MFA, University of Arizona, 1987

What People are Saying About This

T Coraghessan Boyle

David Foster Wallace turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives "inventive," "unique," and "original," seem blase.

Editorial Reviews

"These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in."

Madison Smartt Bell Book World

These stories are serious and sincere about the world the rest of us have to live in. -- Washington Post Book World

Madison Smartt Bell

A dynamic writer of extraordinary talent -- Mr. Wallace brings us, time and again, to mythic places that are strange yet oddly familiar. He succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction. -- New York Times Book Review

Jennifer Levin

"These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in."

Washington Post Book World - Madison Smartt Bell

"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."

San Francisco Chronicle - Benedict Cosgrove

"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."

New York Times Book Review - Jennifer Levin