Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace
Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace
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Girl With Curious Hair
Stories

Author: David Foster Wallace

Narrator: Joshua Swanson, Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 14 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2010

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

For the first time ever available as an audiobook, Girl with Curious Hair is being produced as part of Hachette Audio's ambitious David Foster Wallace audiobook publishing program, joining Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Consider the Lobster, and This is Water. (Broom of the System will be released in June 2010.)

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).

David Foster Wallace was one of the most prodigiously talented and original young writers in America today, 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 and overtelevised 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, the familiar strange.


Reviews

After finishing David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair, I had to step back awhile before reviewing in fear I would simply come across as an overzealous cheerleader yelling ‘Give me a D!....Give me a F!...Give me a W!....’. Like a teenage romance, I was so blinded by my love for this collectio......more

Goodreads review by MJ

My main response to reading Wallace is that I’m not clever enough to read Wallace. I go through long periods in his fiction not knowing what the hell is happening and what the narrator is narrating. My second response is that Wallace wrote fiction with a universal appeal, inscrutable at times, but w......more

Primo, primissimo DFW!!! Iniziato a caso tra i titoli che avevo in libreria. No non a caso, ma attratta da "LA RAGAZZA DAI CAPELLI STRANI". Anche noi avevamo nomi strani. C'era Krusty che avevi i capelli come Krusty il clown, l'hippy che non serve molto che vi spieghi il perché, ma ricordo solo che er......more

Goodreads review by Roula

"οι μερες περνουν,η θεια και ο θειος μου ειναι αψογα ευγενικοι, αλλα το Μειν γινεται ενα ακομη εδω αντι να ειναι εκει".... literally,story of my life... αυτο το βιβλιο αποτελειται απο 10 ιστοριες,μεταξυ των οποιων βρισκεται και αυτη που εδωσε τον τιτλο στο βιβλιο και που-κατα τη γνωμη μου-ειναι μια απ......more