Girl with Curious Hair (Compact Disc). This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Hachette Book Group, 2011
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
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Condition: New
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Item description from seller
Compact Disc. Until his death in 2008, David Foster Wallace was one of the most prodigiously talented and original young writers in America, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson, 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, and the familiar strange. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Seller Inventory # 9781607889618
- Title
- Girl with Curious Hair (Compact Disc)
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Publisher
- Hachette Book Group
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1607889617
- ISBN 13
- 9781607889618
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Review
Puncturing the veneer of power lies at the crux of this collection, and attention to detail illuminates the banal. Wallace's control of different voices is superb, given the individual style of each tale. (THE TIMES)
It is his prose that really sets him apart; sometimes eerily banal, at others so densely observed you're scared to blink, and making ordinary situations seem strangely disconnnected from reality. Cleverness and verbosity are additional key ingredients, and the effect is often brilliant. (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)
A collection of stories as varied in length and theme as they are imaginative, and as downright bizarre as any collection by one author has a right to be. Truly funny surreal humour. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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