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The Broom of the System
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The Broom of the System Compact disc - 2010

by David Foster Wallace; Read by Robert Petkoff

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The "dazzling, exhilarating" (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an audiobook. At the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous. And her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program. Fiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.

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  • Title The Broom of the System
  • Author David Foster Wallace; Read by Robert Petkoff
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 14
  • Volumes 14
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Original, N.Y.
  • Date 2010
  • ISBN 9781607883883 / 1607883880
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.75 x 5.25 x 1.5 in (14.61 x 13.34 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular culture, Humorous fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.
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The Broom of the System: A Novel
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The Broom of the System: A Novel

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UNITED STATES: Hachette Audio, 2010 Audio Book. Good. AUDIO CD. 14 Worthwhile and individually polished Audio CDs from the library collection. Some library marking to the box and the CDs. You will receive a reliable set. Enjoy this Audio CD performance..
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