To illustrate this idea, Wallace uses different formats to build the story, including transcripts from television recordings and therapy sessions, as well as an accompanying fictional account written by one of the main characters, Rick Vigorous. The controlling idea surrounding all of these crises is the use of words and symbols to define a person. 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. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. The book centers on the emotionally challenged Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who questions her own reality. Description A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He had also sold his first short-story collection Girl with Curious Hair, leaving him in an enviable position among MFA students. Broom was published in 1987 as Wallace completed a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Arizona.
Having submitted Broom of the System to the Department of English, he decided to focus his career on fiction. A professor commented that Wallace's philosophy writing tended to have the quality of an unfolding story, leading Wallace to explore literature. He had begun study in philosophy at Amherst, interested in math and logic, and developed an interest in Ludwig Wittgenstein before beginning the novel. Very Scarce Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College, the other being a paper on Richard Taylor's fatalism.
Uncorrected Proof of the First UK edition, pp 467. Yellow card covers, some light shelfwear, one small bump to top of rear cover and some very small marks on covers and edge of text block but otherwise in Very Good condition.
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