Sunday, June 27, 2010

Audiobook Giveaway-The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

The "dazzling, exhilarating" (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an audiobook.

At the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous. And her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program.

Fiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.

I have three copies of this audiobook to giveaway. This is open to US and Canada, please just leave a comment below to enter. Winners will be chosen on July 21.







11 comments:

  1. I've read good reviews of this book.

    denny(dot)gill(at)gmail(dot)com

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  2. This sounds really really good.

    melissa
    jedisakora@msn.com

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  3. Always looking to add a new author to my "favorites"...maybe this one could!

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  4. i'm interested...please count me in...thanks :)

    karenk
    kmkuka at yahoo dot com

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  5. I've enjoyed some of Wallace's essays, but I've never read this novel. I'd love a chance to.

    ikkinlala AT yahoo DOT ca

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  6. You got my attention.

    dorcontest at gmail dot com

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  7. I found your review to be intriguing and one that I think I would take pleasure in listening too.

    Thank you so much for hosting this giveaway.

    steven(dot)capell(at)gmail(dot)com

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  8. This sounds interesting.

    janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com

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  9. Wow, this looks really interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!

    EuroTrashGlamour(at)gmail(dot)com

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  10. This sounds like an interesting book! Thanks for the chance.

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

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  11. Please include me in your giveaway.
    Thanks
    Debbie
    debdesk9(at)verizon.net

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