num_pages: 373
description: David Foster Wallace is one of the most prodigiously talented young writers in America today, and Girl with Curious Hair is replete with his remarkable and unsettling re-imaginations 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.
language: English
title: Girl With Curious Hair
titlecomplete: Girl With Curious Hair
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, American, Americana, Literary Fiction, Literature, Collections, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 13943
awards: name: O. Henry Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company