Big Eater : We first meet Norman Bombardini, owner of the building in which Lenore works, at a restaurant where he's beginning his plan to eat until there's no more room for anyone else in the universe.
Tropes used in The Broom of the System include: There are also Loads and Loads of Characters. The novel is primarily preoccupied with language and the power of words, and is told using various formats, including straight narrative, sections of just dialogue, therapy transcripts, TV transcripts, Rick's journal entries, and a in-universe-fictional writing by Rick centering around a man named Monroe Fieldbinder. Of course, this just scratches the surface. Over the course of the novel, she has to deal with the disappearance/escape of her great grandmother, also named Lenore Beadsman, (and a number of other patients and employees) from the nursing home the Beadsman family also owns, the increasingly obvious neurotic jealousy of her boyfriend Rick/ Dick Vigorous, and the sudden verbosity of her cockatiel Vlad the Impaler and his proceeding fame as the co-host of an Evangelical Christian TV show. The novel focuses on Lenore Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator from a wealthy and eccentric family, who isn't sure whether she exists or not. It's nowhere near as long as the Doorstopper Infinite Jest, but still pretty healthy in size at around 450 pages.
The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".Also, the Ohio city in which most of the action takes place is in the shape of Jayne Mansfield's profile when viewed from the sky.ĭavid Foster Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System was published in 1987. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. David Foster Wallace (Febru– September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. “Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College, the other being a paper on Richard Taylor's fatalism. An excellent example, a collector’s copy. Faint rubbing and edge wear, particular to corners. Original quarter black cloth over teal paper-covered boards, stamped in teal, in original unclipped ($18.95) dust-jacket.
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