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The Broom of the System.
de WALLACE, David Foster
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New York: Viking,, 1987. Words and a book and a belief that the world is words First edition, first printing, scarce hardback issue of the author's first novel, signed by him on the title page with his printed name struck-through. Wallace submitted the work as an undergraduate thesis. It was published when he was just 24 years old and won the young author the Whiting Award. "This is Wallace in the nascent stage of his literary powers, attempting to reconcile his interest in Wittgenstein and language with his desire to speak of something urgent and true about us and our beautiful messes" (Schacht). Octavo. Original black cloth-backed blue boards, spine lettered in black on metallic blue ground, green endpapers. With dust jacket. Text block toned; spine panel sunned, nick at foot of rear panel, unclipped: near-fine in like jacket. Tori Schacht, "The Last Book I Loved: The Broom of the System", The Rumpus, 8 March 2011.
Sinopsis
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.
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- Título
- The Broom of the System.
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- WALLACE, David Foster
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- New York: Viking,
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- 1987
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