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The broom of the system a novel

"When her great-grandmother goes missing along with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights, Ohio, Nursing Home, Lenore's life is thrown into chaos. Featuring an insanely jealous boss and a cockatiel that quotes Auden and the King James Bible, Lenore's quest to find her great-grandmother against daunting odds cleverly moves into an exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality."--Inside blurb.

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  • "Broom of the system"@it
  • "The broom of the system"@it

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  • "En 1990, dans le désert d'Ohio, Lenore Breadsman est standardiste dans une maison d'édition. A un travail abrutissant s'ajoutent quelques soucis : son arrière-grand-mère disparaît de sa maison de retraite avec 25 autres pensionnaires, son petit ami et patron est un jaloux pathologique et complexé, et sa perruche devient la star d'une chaîne de télévision chrétienne fondamentaliste. Premier roman."
  • ""When her great-grandmother goes missing along with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights, Ohio, Nursing Home, Lenore's life is thrown into chaos. Featuring an insanely jealous boss and a cockatiel that quotes Auden and the King James Bible, Lenore's quest to find her great-grandmother against daunting odds cleverly moves into an exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality."--Inside blurb."@en
  • "The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible.--Publisher's description."
  • "Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality."@en
  • ""The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and twenty-five other elderly residents from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. ... Other small catastrophes ... threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-determination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness."--Cover."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Entfremdung"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Staat Ohio"
  • "Psychotherapie"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Liebespaar"

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  • "The broom of the system a novel"@en
  • "La fonction du balai"
  • "The Broom of the System"@en
  • "La scopa del sistema"
  • "La scopa del sistema"@it
  • "Der Besen im System Roman"
  • "Der Besen im System : Roman"
  • "La fonction du balai : roman"
  • "The broom of the system"@en
  • "The broom of the system"
  • "The broom of the system : a novel"
  • "L'escombra del sistema"
  • "The Broom of the system"
  • "Der Besen im System"

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