467 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1987 by Quill.
The Broom of the System
4 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Young women -- Fiction.
- Popular culture -- Fiction.
- Missing persons -- Fiction.
- Grandmothers -- Fiction.
- Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction.