The Broom of the System
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142002421 (0142002429)
Publish date: May 25th 2004
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 467
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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