The Broom of the System: A Novel

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4.4
15 reviews
Ebook
480
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

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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4.4
15 reviews
A Google user
June 30, 2012
His first novel, and for a philosophy major at Amherst, I can't really imagine a funnier work more personally customized to my own past. Wittgenstein references, sex jokes in Latin, and a compelling set of strange characters.
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Ronald Crowley
April 29, 2015
All his potential revealed in many clever ways. Unnecessarily long, though.
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About the author

David Foster Wallace is the award-winning author of several short story and essay collections as well as two novels. Most recently, he is the author of the biography Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.

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