Girl With Curious Hair

Girl With Curious Hair

Paperback (06 Nov 1997)

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Publisher's Synopsis

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian... he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddam him' Zadie Smith, Guardian

'David Foster Wallace turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives ''inventive'', ''unique'' and ''original'' seem blasé' T. Coraghessan Boyle

'Truly funny surreal humour' San Francisco Chronicle

Girl With Curious Hair
is replete with the prodigious talent of David Foster Wallace and his remarkable and unsettling re-imaginations of reality. From an eerily 'real', almost holographic evocation of Lyndon B. Johnson, to over-televised 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780349111025
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Abacus
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 373
Weight: 266g
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 24mm

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