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The Broom of the System

The Broom of the System

Wallace, David Foster

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HumorClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 12, 2027

ISBN10: 0316616478
ISBN13: 9780316616478
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 480
Language: English
The remarkable debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. First published in 1987, now available in a brand-new paperback edition.

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

At the center of The Broom of the System is the bewitching--and also bewildered--heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland: the Great Ohio Desert. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous. And her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program.

This debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation is fiercely intelligent and wildly entertaining.

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