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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143116932

ISBN-139780143116936

eBay Product ID (ePID)79243351

Product Key Features

Book TitleBroom of the System : a Novel (Penguin Ink)

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Literary, Coming of Age, Humorous / General

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes, Riley, Duke

GenreFiction

AuthorDavid Foster Wallace

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Daring, 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

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe "dazzling, exhilarating" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writers Published when David Foster Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System s tunned 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.