Title: The Broom of the System
Author(s): David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Published: 25 May 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780142002421
Extension: EPUB
Size: 426 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Humorous stories, Popular American Fiction, Social Science, Popular Culture, Humorous, Literary, Fiction - General, Missing persons, Young women, Grandmothers, Cleveland (Ohio)
Categories: Fiction, Literature
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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