David Foster Wallace lives in Bloomington, Illinois.
Review
"Powerful, fixating, explosive and mysterious . . . succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction."
--Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review
W.W. Norton & Company Web Site, April, 2001
Summary
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent."
David Foster Wallace is 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.
