The Broom of the System.
de WALLACE, David Foster
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Berkeley, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Viking/Penguin Books, (1987).. Uncorrected proof.. 463 pp. Fine in printed blue wrappers. The uncommon advance copy of Wallace’s first book. Precedes the simultaneously published cloth and paperback first editions, as well as the advance reading copy. One of the scarcest items in the Wallace canon.
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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- Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 62873
- Título
- The Broom of the System.
- Autor
- WALLACE, David Foster
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- Uncorrected proof.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- NY: Viking/Penguin Books
- Fecha de publicación
- (1987).
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Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Any book returnable for any reason within 10 days with prior notice. CA residents please add 9.5% sales tax. Libraries can be billed as needed.
Sobre el vendedor
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Berkeley, California
Sobre Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Fine and rare books with an emphasis on 20th C. poetry, small press, literary magazines, broadsides, and interesting books in most fields.
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