About this title: From the author of THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM and INFINITE JEST, a collection of short stories which feature characters such as former president Lyndon Johnson, a late-night comedian, a ubiquitous game-show host, and a punk fashioned Young Republican woman.
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Description: Fine. 0393313964 NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black ink mark on outside edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Norton
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393313963ISBN:0393313964
Description: Very Good. Very clean tight copy, unmarked, 373 pages, absolutely NO age toning, one faint reading crease in spine, no slant, short fiction from late American writer. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393313963ISBN:0393313964
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN-13:9780393313963ISBN:0393313964
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Description: Fine. 0393313964 1991 Avon Books, First Trade Paperback Printing. This softcover copy has light shelf wear; otherwise this book is in excellent condition. The text is unmarked and the binding is sturdy. 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed. We process and ship orders daily. "In assessing this book, comparisons with Don DeLillo, Tom Robbins, and Robert Coover seem accurate, for Wallace is playful, idiomatically sharp, and intellectually engage. Overwhelming in his long, torrential sentences ... read more
Description: Paperback Book is in Good condition. Clean cover, clean pages-no text markings. Some minor wear to cover edges. We ship with bar coded label for faster delivery! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393313963ISBN:0393313964
Description: New. This collection could possibly represent the first flowering of post-postmoderism: visions of the world that re-imagine reality as more realistic than we can imagine. A compelling presence of a holograph and the up-to-the-second feeling of the most a... read more
"Voy a confesar que me salté un cuento. Ese de David Letterman. No me decía nada, me estaba aburriendo horrores, y ni con el respeto que le tengo a Wallace pude llegar siquiera a la mitad. Pero en general qué tipo tan más agudo. Puede llegar a contar tanto en muy pocas páginas y viceversa. El amigo que me ha prestado el libro cuenta que es quizá su peor defecto. Pero a mí me ha parecido eso más juguetón que otra cosa. Ojo a "Di Nunca". Aún me estremezco al recordar esa carta académica que desata la tragedia de los Tagus."
"If I were asked the classic which-three-people-would-you-invite-to-dinner question, today I would answer: 1. David Foster Wallace 2. Chris Onstad (see www.achewood.com) and 3. a brilliant young lady who would be impressed and delighted by my invitation to dinner with the previous two.
That isn't really a book review, and Girl with Curious Hair has its strong points and passages of tough going, but more on that when I've actually read the whole thing."
"I'm starting to understand you like a collection of david foster wallace stories in the way you like Citizen Kane. That is, by the time you get to the end, you're a little hazy on some of the details from the beginning, and once you find out about the sled, you realize it wasn't really about the sled anyway. DFW's frankenstening of popular/low culture references with 20th grade vocab and moreorless academic ideas is a mix that a lot of people who aren't me would probably find annoying, but it's sort of invigorating. I mean, there's a story about Jeopardy! in here. What more do you need. Like most short story collections, some work better than others for me. The book is worth the price of admission based on the novella at the end, though - 'westward the course of empire takes its way' - which has very little to do with an empire and is maybe best thought of as a metafictional take on a story that's not really metafiction but kind of is, but also probably deserves a second reading."
"This is early David Foster Wallace, which entails relatively light amounts of pretentious masterbatory devices, but also less innovation than you might expect from him. As with all DFW, the details are more interesting/satifying than the whole. So you might think that short stories would be the perfect vessel for his writing, since you have less invested in the story as a whole, but I must confess that outside of Brief Interviews, I've enjoyed his novels more.
Anyway, Girl With Curious Hair is one of Wallace's weaker works of fiction, but certainly worth reading for fans of his, particularly since he's not going to come out with any new works."
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