Available:
Store & Online

Product Info

Publisher: Penguin Orange Collection

Author: David Foster Wallace

ISBN: 9780143129448

Year: 2016

Format: Paperback

Classics, Fiction

Broom of the System by
David Foster Wallace

- +

$ 370.00 mxn

Broom of the System by

David Foster Wallace

Reviews

"Wonderful... a cathartic experience with lots of laughs and lots of deeper meanings."

The Washington Post Book World

Summary

Published when 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 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.

Also recommended

The Sellout by

Paul Beatty

Picador

$ 300.00 mxn

The Awakening by

Kate Chopin

Canongate

$ 450.00 mxn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Detective by

Mark Twain

Alma

$ 280.00 mxn

Tales of Horror by

Edgar Allan Poe

Alma

$ 260.00 mxn

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

View Book
1 2 3 4 5

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

View Book
1 2 3 4 5

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

View Book
1 2 3 4 5

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

View Book
1 2 3 4 5

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville

View Book
1 2 3 4 5

Shop
 Souvenirs

Go to Souvenirs Shop