The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0380719916
- ISBN 13
- 9780380719914
- Seller
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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
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18765
- Title
- The Broom of the System
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380719916
- ISBN 13
- 9780380719914
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
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