The "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 stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality..
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.
Lenore\'s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home.
The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio.
At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman.
The "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 stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent
