Girl with Curious Hair

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Girl with Curious Hair
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First edition
Author David Foster Wallace
LanguageEnglish
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
17 August 1989 [1]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages373pp
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". [2]

Contents

List of stories

References

  1. https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Curious-Norton-Paperback-Fiction/dp/0393027570
  2. Boswell, 102 et seq.
  3. Boswell, 93
  4. Wallace, David Foster (1989). Girl with Curious Hair . W. W. Norton & Company. pp.  211, 213, 214, 217–8.
  5. Boswell, 100
  6. Boswell, 102

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