ISBN: 0316338893 9780316338899

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 74

<p><b>Remarkable, hilarious, and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by the bestselling author of </b><i><b>Infinite Jest</b></i><b>, “a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent” (</b><i><b>The New York Times Book Review</b></i><b>).</b></p><p>David Foster Wallace was one of America's most prodigiously talented and original young writers, and <i>Girl with Curious Hair</i> displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily “real,” almost holographic evocations of historical figures such as Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.</p><p><b>“These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in.” —</b><i><b>The Washington Post Book World</b></i></p><p><b>“Turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives 'inventive,' 'unique,' and 'original' seem blasé.” —T. C. Boyle, </b><i><b>New York Times</b></i><b>–bestselling author</b></p><p><b>“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.” —</b><i><b>San Francisco Chronicle</b></i></p>