480 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2010 by Penguin Publishing Group.
David Foster Wallace, Duke Riley: Broom of the System (2010, Penguin Publishing Group)
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- 978-0-14-311693-6
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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.
Subjects
- Fiction, humorous
- Grandparents, fiction
- Missing persons, fiction
- Cleveland (ohio), fiction
- Young women, fiction