Girl With Curious Hair

David Foster Wallace

W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1996 - Fiction - 373 pages

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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User Review  - Vivian Valvano - Goodreads

DRW's 1989 short story collection was a wonderful precursor to the ingenious magnitude of the later INFINITE JEST. If anything connects these stories (apart from DFW's intrepid experimentation), it is ...

Review: Girl With Curious Hair

User Review  - Nathan "NR" Gaddis - Goodreads

I am a DFW completist. Recently I have been suffering an anxiety that I had in fact not completed his first book of short stories, Girl with Curious Hair. It was time to reread it and banish those ...

About the author

Writer David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York on February 21, 1962. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He was working on his master's degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona when he published his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). Wallace published his second novel Infinite Jest (1996) which introduced a cast of characters that included recovering alcoholics, foreign statesmen, residents of a halfway house, and high-school tennis stars. He spent four years researching and writing this novel. His first collection of short stories was Girl with Curious Hair (1989). He also published a nonfiction work titled Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present. He committed suicide on September 12, 2008 at the age of 46 after suffering with bouts of depression for 20 years.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Girl With Curious Hair; Norton paperback fiction
• Author: David Foster Wallace
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1996
• ISBN: 0393313964, 9780393313963
• Length: 373 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Contemporary Women; Fiction / General