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The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Penguin
, 2004-05-25
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Psychological
ISBN
1101153539
9781101153536
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hN9n0phqp0YC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.