The Broom of the System (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Broom of the System Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Broom of the System Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: David Foster Wallace: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Broom of the System Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.