The Broom of the System
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Wallace, David Foster Author
Published
Penguin Publishing Group , 2004.
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Description
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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David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen, among the most lauded American writers of modern times, have produced fiction and nonfiction that offers uncommon insight into contemporary life and the human experience. -- Jessica Zellers
Fans of David Foster Wallace's nonfiction may enjoy the works of Susan Orlean. Writing with scintillating prose about a variety of topics and memorable people, both authors offer intelligent, thoughtful insights that range in tone from profound to wryly comical. -- Jessica Zellers
In their nonfiction as well as their novels, David Foster Wallace and Chuck Klosterman offer shrewd observations on a wide range of topics. Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, they are gifted prose stylists who lighten their sometimes weighty themes with humor. -- Jessica Zellers
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wallace, D. F. (2004). The Broom of the System . Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wallace, David Foster. 2004. The Broom of the System. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wallace, David Foster. The Broom of the System Penguin Publishing Group, 2004.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Wallace, D. F. (2004). The broom of the system. Penguin Publishing Group.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wallace, David Foster. The Broom of the System Penguin Publishing Group, 2004.
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| Collection | Owned | Available | Number of Holds |
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| Libby | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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