Girl With Curious Hair : Stories

New York: W.W. Norton, (1989). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 373 pp. Original quarter black cloth over sky blue paper-covered boards, stamped in metallic blue, in original unclipped ($17.95) dust-jacket. Almost fine. Light general handling wear with rubbing to gloss. Some light edge wear particular to spine ends. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light wear to edges. Corners touched, bottom lightly rubbed. Page edges with light smudges. Light curling to spine ends, pages lightly toned. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989. Though the stories are not related, several reflect Wallace's concern with contemporary trends in fiction, including metafiction and the irony of postmodernism; and the cynical, amoral realism of "Brat Pack" writers such as Bret Easton Ellis. Others address society's fascination with celebrity, some with characters based on real people, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson. A novella, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", closes the book, as an extended response to John Barth's metafictional short story "Lost in the Funhouse".