The Broom of the System - Hardcover

Wallace, David Foster

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670812307 ISBN 13: 9780670812301

Publisher: Viking, 1987

Synopsis

Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, switchboard operator for the Frequent and Vigorous Publishing Company, tries to cope with her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, her insanely jealous but not-too-passionate beau, and a cocatiel that spouts psycho-babble, Auden, and Bible quotations

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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")

"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

-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: Viking
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0670812307
• ISBN 13: 9780670812301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480