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a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok.

Prokop, CEL Regional Lib., Savannah, Ga.Ĭopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Libraries serving such patrons should consider it. 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. The novel is largely dialogue, much of it quite funny and perceptive. 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.). 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 Beadsman works as a telephone operator for Frequent and Vigorous Publishers. 38.The year is 1990, and the place Cleveland.

THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM TV

But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator, seriously compounded by her ongoing affair with boss Rick Vigorous the TV stardom of her talking cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler and other minor catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-detemination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. 9780349109237 The Broom Of The System 38.8000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction 'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. The Best American Short Stories remains the preeminent annual selection of the finest short fiction published in North America. 'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. David Foster Wallace famously characterized his first novel, The Broom of the System, as a conversation between Ludwig Wittgenstein and. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from.

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text.

The broom of the system