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Jun 06, 2011 the year i read infinite jest, i bought like 20 copies and gave them to a bunch of my friends and family for christmaschanukkahetc. David foster wallace february 21, 1962 september 12, 2008 was an american author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of english and creative writing. As in those novels, the charm and flaws of david foster wallaces book are due to its exuberance cartoonish characters, stories within stories. The broom of the system by david foster wallace 1993. This is an uncorrected proof of the first british edition of the first book by wallace. The mysterious disappearance of her greatgrandmother and twentyfive other elderly inmates from a shaker heights nursing home has left lenore stonecipher beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the great ohio desert. His second novel, infinite jest, was published in 1996. The dazzling, exhilarating san francisco chronicle debut novel from one of this centurys most groundbreaking writers published when david foster wallace. The broom of the system, written when the author was still in undergrad school, is not a trifling exercise by any means, yet it is a little hollow. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, brief interviews with hideous men, he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
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