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The Broom of the System

The Broom of the System

Wallace, David Foster

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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, first published when David Foster Wallace was twenty-four years old, now available in a brand-new package.

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.

Fiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.

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

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