{"product_id":"books-the-broom-of-the-system-by-david-foster-wallace","title":"The Broom of the System","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe dazzling, exhilarating (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest, \u003c\/i\u003e available for the first time as an audiobook.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. 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. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669154750737,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780142002421.jpg?v=1781506448","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-broom-of-the-system-by-david-foster-wallace","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}