The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1997, Paperback) 
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1997, Paperback)

 
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1997, Paperback)

Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380730308
ISBN-13: 9780380730308
Product ID: EPID128637
Description: Lenore Beadsman, a student of Wittgensteinian philosophy, searches for her 92-year-old grandmother (also named Lenore) on the edge of the state-constructed Great Ohio Desert--aka GOD. Her experiences on this quest amount to a stylized co...
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Synopsis
Lenore Beadsman, a student of Wittgensteinian philosophy, searches for her 92-year-old grandmother (also named Lenore) on the edge of the state-constructed Great Ohio Desert--aka GOD. Her experiences on this quest amount to a stylized coming-of-age novel and a detailed fantasy on the play between language and reality.

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Publication Date:1997-07-01

Size
Height:7.0 in
Width:4.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and 25 other elderly inmates from a nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator--compounded by her ongoing affair with her boss, the impending TV stardom of her talking cockatiel, and similar small catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-determination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness.

Industry Reviews
"['The Broom of the System'] elicited cries of 'Pynchonesque!' from diverse quarters; some of them to be sure, using the adjective in its usual sense, i.e., as reviewer's code for 'I didn't finish it,' others so besotted with Pynchon that they see his scat everywhere, a few finding genuine similarities."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - David Kipen (02/11/1996)

"...Wallace makes it all come together as a unified vision of inspired madness. This is Wallace's first novel. God help us all when he gets some practice."
"Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" - Orson Scott Card

"A manic, human, flawed extravaganza...emerging straight from the excessive tradition of Stanly Elkin's 'Franchiser', Thomas Pynchon's 'V', John Irving's 'The World According to Garp'."
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