The Broom of the System.
by Wallace, David Foster
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140098682
- ISBN 13
- 9780140098686
- 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
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3113986
- Title
- The Broom of the System.
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140098682
- ISBN 13
- 9780140098686
- Publisher
- Penguin.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0140098682
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