The Broom of the System: A Novel (Penguin Ink) - Softcover

Wallace, David Foster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143116932 ISBN 13: 9780143116936

Publisher: Penguin Group, 2010

Synopsis

The "dazzling, exhilarating" (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writers

Published when David Foster 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.

About this title

Review:

"Daring, hilarious... a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok." --The New York Times

"Wonderful... a cathartic experience with lots of laughs and lots of deeper meanings." --The Washington Post Book World

Book Description:

David Foster Wallace's fiercely original, bracingly funny first novel, reissued to coincide with his new short story collection.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143116932
• ISBN 13: 9780143116936
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 467
• Illustrator: Riley Duke