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The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
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Lenore Beadsman, a student of Wittgensteinian philosophy, searches for her 92-year-old grandmother (also named Lenore) on the edge of the state-constructed Great Ohio Desert--aka GOD. Her experiences on this quest amount to a stylized coming-of-age novel and a detailed fantasy on the play between language and reality.
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9780380719914,
Paperback,
Harpercollins,
1993
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9780140098686,
Paperback,
Penguin,
1987
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9780670812301,
Hardcover,
Penguin USA,
1987
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9780142002421,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
2004
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9780380730308,
Paperback,
Harpercollins,
1997
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Publisher Notes
The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and 25 other elderly inmates from a nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator--compounded by her ongoing affair with her boss, the impending TV stardom of her talking cockatiel, and similar small catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-determination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness.
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"A manic, human, flawed extravaganza...emerging straight from the excessive tradition of Stanly Elkin's 'Franchiser', Thomas Pynchon's 'V', John Irving's 'The World According to Garp'."
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