We have a lot of characters: Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, who has a very uncomfortable and complicated relationship with her boss, Rick Vigorous, who is a walking bundle of neuroses and sexual anxieties. Well, okay, there's plenty of text for analysis. Evidently this book is taught in graduate schools. Evaluating it from a writer's perspective, yeah, Foster knew his way around language, and he does lots of clever things, even a few funny things. The Broom of the System was David Foster Wallace's debut novel. That's not to say I don't like any of it, but it has to be really, really good and/or brilliant. I am not a big fan of meta-fiction, post-modernist fiction, or experimental fiction. And her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program.įiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. At the center of The Broom of the System is the bewitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman.
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