The Resource The broom of the system, David Foster Wallace
The broom of the system, David Foster Wallace
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- Summary
- 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. At the centre of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place if 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 467 pages
- Note
- "Penguin orange collection"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780143129448
- Label
- The broom of the system
- Title
- The broom of the system
- Statement of responsibility
- David Foster Wallace
- Subject
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- Grandmothers
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous stories
- Missing persons
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Novels
- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Philosophical fiction
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- Fiction
- Young women
- Young women -- Fiction
- Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. At the centre of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place if 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wallace, David Foster
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3573.A425635
- LC item number
- B7 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
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- Penguin classics
- Penguin orange collection
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Young women
- Popular culture
- Missing persons
- Grandmothers
- Cleveland (Ohio)
- Humorous stories
- Grandmothers
- Missing persons
- Popular culture
- Young women
- Ohio
- Label
- The broom of the system, David Foster Wallace
- Note
- "Penguin orange collection"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn933567899
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 467 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143129448
- Lccn
- 2016591378
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The broom of the system, David Foster Wallace
- Note
- "Penguin orange collection"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn933567899
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 467 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143129448
- Lccn
- 2016591378
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Grandmothers
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous stories
- Missing persons
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Novels
- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Philosophical fiction
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- Fiction
- Young women
- Young women -- Fiction
- Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction
- Fiction
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