Girl with Curious Hair

<p>David Foster Wallace's debut novel <em>The Broom of the System</em> provoked comparisons to Pynchon Coover DeLillo and Tom Robbins for its intellectual reach and ambition and antic spirit and marked him as a young writer to watch. The stories in his first collection of short fiction <em>Girl with Curious Hair</em> represent an early flowering of <em>post-</em>postmoderism: visions of the world that reimagine reality with the eerily compelling presence of a holograph and the up-to-the-second feeling of the most advanced art.</p>