Girl With Curious Hair

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System , the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster . His writings have appeared in Esquire , Harper's , the New Republic , New Yorker , Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008. Klappentext Electrifying collection of short stories from the author of "Infinite Jest". Zusammenfassung In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.

Product details

• Authors: David Foster Wallace, David F Wallace, David Foster Wallace
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.1997
• EAN: 9780349111025
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11102-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Abacus Paperbacks; Abacus Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Absurdist, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction