num_pages: 477
description: The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator, seriously compounded by her ongoing affair with boss Rick Vigorous; the TV stardom of her talking cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler; and other minor catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-detemination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness.
language: English
title: The Broom of the System
titlecomplete: The Broom of the System
characters: Stonecipher LaVache Beadsman, Stonecipher Beadsman III, Andy (Wang-Dang) Lang, John Beadsman, Patrice LaVache Beadsman, Norman Bombardini, Melinda (Mindy) Metalman, Dr. Jay Curtis, Clarice Beadsman, Vlad The Impaler (TBODS), Mr. Bloemker, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, Candy Mandible, Rick Vigorous
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Americana, Philosophy, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 22169
places: Cleveland, Ohio, The United States of America, Ohio
publisher: Abacus