The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, slight wear on edges
- ISBN 10
- 0380719916
- ISBN 13
- 9780380719914
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Synopsis
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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- Bookseller
- Rocking Chair Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7267888
- Title
- The Broom of the System
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, slight wear on edges
- Edition
- First Avon
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380719916
- ISBN 13
- 9780380719914
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 467
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
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