An edition of The Broom of the System (1987)

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An edition of The Broom of the System (1987)

The broom of the system

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Lenore Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who gets caught in the middle of a Cleveland-based character drama. In Wallace's typically offbeat style, Lenore navigates three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel. The controlling idea surrounding all of these crises is the use of words and symbols to define a person.

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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
467

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Subjects

Fiction, Missing persons, Popular culture, Grandmothers, Young women, Fiction, humorous, Grandparents, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Cleveland (ohio), fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general

Places

Cleveland (Ohio)

Times

80's

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The Broom of the System: A Novel
Oct 18, 2016, Penguin Classics
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Broom of the System: A Novel
2010, Penguin Publishing Group
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The Broom of the System: A Novel
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The broom of the system
2004, Penguin Books
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The Broom of the System
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1987, Penguin
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1987, Avon Books
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Series
Contemporary American fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425635 B7 1987b, PS3573.A425635B7

The Physical Object

Pagination
467 p. ;
Number of pages
467

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2724954M
ISBN 10
0140098682
LCCN
86018670
OCLC/WorldCat
14001588
Library Thing
10139
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1056483

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Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
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