The Broom of the System
by Wallace, David Foster
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0380719916
- ISBN 13
- 9780380719914
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About This Item
Paperback - First Avon Books Trade Printing 1993 with full number line, James Stiles cover, text appears clean and unmarked but for minor yellowing to page block edges, binding is square and tight, covers are clean but for light edge wear -- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin.
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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- Frugal Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24FEB03A018
- Title
- The Broom of the System
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380719916
- ISBN 13
- 9780380719914
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
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