Girl with Curious Hair

Girl with Curious Hair

Cover of Abacus 1997 reprint
Author David Foster Wallace
Country United States
Language English
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
August 1989
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 373pp
ISBN 0-349-11102-2

Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989. Though the stories are not related, several reflect Wallace's concern with contemporary trends in fiction, including metafiction and the irony of postmodernism; and the cynical, amoral realism of "Brat Pack" writers such as Bret Easton Ellis. Others address society's fascination with celebrity, some with characters based on real people, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson. A novella, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", closes the book, as an extended response to John Barth's metafictional short story "Lost in the Funhouse".[1]

List of stories

References

  1. Boswell, 102 et seq.
  2. Boswell, 93
  3. Wallace, David Foster (1989). Girl with Curious Hair. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 211, 213, 214, 217–8.
  4. Boswell, 100
  5. Boswell, 102

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