“The severing of an established connection is
exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.”
The story follows the life of a confused yet bewitching
24-year-old Lenore Beadsman, a telephone switchboard operator at her insanely
possessive partner’s publishing firm. She finds herself questioning her own
existence and is left emotionally forsaken since the mysterious disappearance
of her great-grandmother and 25 other residents of a nursing home. On top of
that, Vlad the impaler, her pet cockatiel, has suddenly started jabbering Auden
and King James Bible quotes on shockingly inappropriate social occasions and has
caught the attention of an Evangelist TV show.
No book review blog would ever be
complete without mentioning the revolutionary work of the unparalleled genius,
David Foster Wallace. Broom of the system was his first ever published novel,
written when he was still in his early twenties. With an ironically
unsatisfying ending, the book is an intelligent page-turner with some
unconventional tones of comedy here and there. The book taps into unspoken absurdities of
reality and language with such precision and brilliance that we are left
wondering if we can ever really move on to some other book.
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