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The Broom of the System
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
January 6, 1987
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover, paperback
Pages467
ISBN0-14-200242-9
OCLC55873635
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3573.A425635 B7 2004

The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace, published in 1987.

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