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Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace (1989, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393027570
ISBN-139780393027570
eBay Product ID (ePID)1333180
Product Key Features
Edition1
Book TitleGirl with Curious Hair
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year1989
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width7.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-009435
ReviewsMr. Wallace brings us, time and again, to hidden, mythic places that are strange yet oddly familiar. He succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction., These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in., 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.
SynopsisDavid Foster Wallace's debut novel, The Broom of the System , provoked comparisons to Pynchon, Coover, DeLillo, and Tom Robbins for its intellectual reach and ambition and antic spirit, and marked him as a young writer to watch. The stories in his first collection of short fiction, Girl with Curious Hair , represent an early flowering of post- postmoderism: visions of the world that reimagine reality with the eerily compelling presence of a holograph and the up-to-the-second feeling of the most advanced art., 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., Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
LC Classification NumberPS3573.A425635G5
