Girl with Curious Hair (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: David Foster Wallace
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Short stories and a novella
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Sexual harassment, Business or business people, Middle age, Advertising
Among the young writers who made their debut in the mid- 198O’s, David Foster Wallace stands out as one of the most willing to take risks. He continues his experimentation in his second book, Girl with Curious Hair. The first story, “Little Expressionless Animals,” begins with two briefly related incidents: Two small children are abandoned at the side of a road, and a woman sitting with her daughter in a movie theater is silently molested by a man sitting behind her. The setting switches to an office of Merv Griffin Enterprises, a few minutes prior to the shooting of an...
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