The Broom of the System
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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.--Publisher's description.
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Wallace's first novel submitted by grubbg on June 13, 2015, 2:22pm Wallace's first novel, written for his MFA application, has marks of early influence from post-modern lions like Barth and Updike. But the young author's enduring, antic style and career themes are here, too: fixation, the fragmented modern moment, and cities that look like things. A cool novel from a great writer.
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 467 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0142002429 (pbk.)
9780142002421 (pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Popular culture -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction.
Ohio -- Fiction.
Humorous stories.