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The Broom of the System : A Novel 🔍
Wallace, David Foster PENGUIN group, Penguin Random House LLC, [N.p.], 2004
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From Library JournalThe year is 1990, and the place Cleveland. Lenore Beadsman works as a telephone operator for Frequent and Vigorous Publishers. Her roommate's name is Candy Mandible, their parrot is Vlad the Impaler, there is a Judith Prietht, and businesses have names like Hunt and Peck. Lenore's great- grandmother and several cronies disappear from their nursing home, and the search for them leads across the Great Ohio Desert (G.O.D.). The novel is largely dialogue, much of it quite funny and perceptive. Obviously not aimed at the Danielle Steel or Robert Ludlum crowds, Wallace's book will appeal to people his age (mid-20s) and to older readers who enjoy trying the unfamiliar. Libraries serving such patrons should consider it. Mary K. Prokop, CEL Regional Lib., Savannah, Ga.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.ReviewDaring, 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_
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zlib/no-category/David Foster Wallace/The Broom of the System_26675528.epub
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David Foster Wallace, Duke Riley
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Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
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Ladybird Books Ltd
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PENGUIN BOOKS
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Contemporary American fiction, New York, N.Y., U.S.A, 1987
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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New York, New York State, 2004
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Reprint, PT, 2004
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<p><P>The "dazzling, exhilarating" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writers, <i>The Broom of the System</i> is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Fans of the late, great David Foster Wallace will delight in narrator Robert Petkoff&rsquo;s wonderful audio version of the author&rsquo;s first novel. When Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a young switchboard attendant at the publishing firm of Frequent and Vigorous, discovers that her great-grandmother has disappeared, her search leads to the recently constructed Great Ohio Desert. Petkoff&rsquo;s narration is energetic, compelling, and well-paced. He deftly handles Wallace&rsquo;s linguistic gymnastics and entertains with brutally sharp comedic timing. Listeners will particularly appreciate the range of zany and pitch perfect voices Petkoff lends to Wallace&rsquo;s equally kooky cast of characters. Fun, funny, and very highly recommended. A Penguin paperback. (June)</p>
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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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Lenore Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who gets caught in the middle of a Cleveland-based character drama. In Wallace's typically offbeat style, Lenore navigates three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel. The controlling idea surrounding all of these crises is the use of words and symbols to define a person.
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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.--Publisher's description
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Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
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2023-10-28
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