Description
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. 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-determination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness. Fiercely original, bracingly funny, and deeply mysterious, The Broom of the System is the brilliant precursor to David Foster Wallace’s celebrated second novel Infinite Jest.
‘Dazzling…exhilarating…bizarre…sweepingly successful…engaging and haunting…a remarkable book with a lot of prestidigitation in it…Wallace’s talent is consistently impressive’ San Francisco Chronicle
‘Brilliant…metafiction of the kind not seen since the heyday of John Barth and Donald Bartheleme, and William Gass and William Gaddis and, oh yes, Thomas Pynchon’ Los Angeles Times
‘Wonderful…outlandish…offbeat and inventive…deadly accurate…The Broom of the System stands apart from the pack’ Cleveland Plain Dealer
Soft cover, 467 pages. In very good to excellent preloved condition.