The Broom of the System
Hilarious and wildly inventive, this novel, by the author of The Girl With Curious Hair, takes off where reality ends, as its protagonist, switchboard operator Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, is inundated with more than the usual share of unusual problems.
Hilarious and wildly inventive, this novel, by the author of The Girl With Curious Hair, takes off where reality ends, as its protagonist, switchboard operator Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, is inundated with more than the usual share of unusual problems.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781607883883 (1607883880)
Publish date: June 1st 2010
Publisher: Hachette Original
Minutes: 17
Edition language: English
Years ago (elsewhere) I gave this five stars. When I reread it this week, I downgraded it to four and just now changed it back halfway. Here's why: A quote from DT Max's biography puts this pretty well. The publisher on the reason they took it: Broom was different, that it used postmodernism in new ...
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Dealing with contemporary entertainment, modern-days Western society, linguistic philosophy, interpersonal relationships and religious birds, The Broom of the System is one of those books you'll never forget, a novel that will stay in the back of your mind forever - going on teaching its lesson in s...
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