Description: • "The Broom of The System” by David Foster Wallace Viking, 1987 First Edition, 1st Printing • • Dust Jacket: Fine Unclipped ($18.95) dust jacket shows very light wear. Some light rubbing and edge wear, particular to corners. Protected in archival mylar. • Hardcover: Fine Viking, 1987. Book is tight, square and firm. Perhaps unread. Trivial edge wear, if any. Light curling to spine ends. One of only 1,300 copies. • • . . . . . . .David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, and a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. In 2008, he died by suicide at age 46 after struggling with depression for many years.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
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Author: David Foster Wallace
Region: North America
Publisher: Viking
Topic: Literature, Modern
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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