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Girl With Curious Hair
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Remarkable, hilarious, and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent" (New York Times Book Review).David Foster Wallace was one of America's most prodigiously talented and original young writers, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures such as Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.
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bibliobliss
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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• yeah, i'm reading "Infinite Jest" and thinking it might be a year-long adventure. so maybe a little dip into DFW's short stories might add a little more enjoyment to my life right now? i wrote that with a question mark because he might be one of those authors for which one must acquire a taste. and that's okay. i like those authors the best. •

#TBR #librarylends #paperback #shortstories #davidfosterwallace

Abailliekaras Love the title! 7y
bibliobliss @Abailliekaras Isn't it great? 👏🏼 7y
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AustenJennings
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Love this collection of short stories. Found this advanced reader copy today!

Tcip Oh man I loved this one. What was your favorite story? The first one was the best and the LBJ one was incredible. 7y
rubyslippersreads Love the cover. 7y
AustenJennings @Tcip say never is prob my fav 7y
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Tcip
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So let's talk about why I love Wallace. It is because I can read him in different times and different levels and gain different meanings. Second, because he writes in a way that surpasses vernacular. He spins reality and shows you as a reader why you want your mind to go into that reality. He writes like he knows the great cosmic joke and he is leaving us clues in these wildly real and hilarious and horribly sad stories and tombs. Read this now.

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Tcip
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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My #shortstoires is read while I put the kids to bed. #somethingforseptember

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Tcip
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Taking a much needed break from the insanity that was the debate....... Yikes

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Tcip
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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This book rules

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Tcip
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Literally the best opening lines to a story I think I have ever seen. #DFWistoogood

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Tcip
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Starting my second DFW journey. I think I am more excited than I should be. #DFW

mauveandrosysky This is a good one! 8y
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McFarchie
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Really digging this!

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McFarchie
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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Brilliant! 🌊🏄🏼

Elisa Love it! 😃👏🏼👏🏼 8y
suvata Great quote 8y
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McFarchie
Girl With Curious Hair | David Foster Wallace
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I've got a feeling this is going to be a ride!

suvata I have rather curious hair myself. LOL 8y
smccallum Brilliant book! Westward... gave me mixed feelings but I LOVE so many of them 8y
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smccallum
Girl with Curious Hair (Revised) | David Foster Wallace
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This was first experience of DFW fiction and it was mixed. If you want to dip in my favourites were the title story, 'Little Expressionless Animals', 'Lyndon' and 'My Appearance' however 'Westward...' Was a challenging and sometimes painful experience regardless (or because) of how clever it was. It still was enough to get me hooked on the author though!