David Foster Wallace — The Broom Of The System

Avon Books 1993 Paperback 530 The first novel by David Foster Wallace, author of the national bestseller Infinite Jest, is vibrantly republished. 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. Foxed and tanned; spine creased. Fair