WALLACE, David Foster.

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The Broom of the System. First edition, hardback issue. The novel, Wallace's first, has its origins as his undergraduate thesis at Amherst College, inspired by a remark from an ex-girlfriend. "She said that she would rather be a character in a piece of fiction than a real person. I got to wondering just what the difference was" (quoted in Max). He published the book two years later, just 24 years old."This is Wallace in the nascent stage of his literary powers, attempting to reconcile his interest in Wittgenstein and language with his desire to speak of something urgent and true about us and our beautiful messes" (Schacht).

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