by David Foster Wallace · EDICIONS DEL PERISCOPI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494049026
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The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and twenty-five other elders from a residence leaves Lenore Beadsman stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But this is just one of the many problems that beset the unfortunate telephone operator, aggravated by the affair with her boss, Rick Vigorous; by the television fame of her cockatoo, Vlad the Impaler, which has suddenly begun to recite a mixture of psychological jargon and terrifying biblical quotations, and by other catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-determination to a new level of spasmodic strangeness. Scandalously original, fierce and funny, L'escombra del sistema is the first novel by one of the most innovative and celebrated writers of his generation, which we present for the first time in Catalan.
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".
