Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace audiobook

Girl with Curious Hair

By David Foster Wallace
Read by Joshua Swanson and Robert Petkoff

Hachette Book Group 9780393027570

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781607889618

Runtime: 14.25 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives ‘inventive,’ ‘unique,’ and ‘original’ seem blasé.” —T. C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author
“Powerful, fixating, explosive, and mysterious…succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction.” —New York Times Book Review
“These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in.” —Washington Post Book World
“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.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Wallace is playful, idiomatically sharp, and intellectually engaging…his talent is undeniable…impressive in scope and savvy.” —Library Journal

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Author Bio: David Foster Wallace

Author Bio: David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was the New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System, and Girl with Curious Hair. His essays and stories have appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, Playboy, Paris Review, Conjunctions, Premiere, Tennis, the Missouri Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He received numerous awards, including the Whiting Award, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the QPB Joe Savago New Voices Award, and the O. Henry Award.

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Details

Available Formats : Library CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 14.25
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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