Dear Committee Members - Softcover

Schumacher, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008120889 ISBN 13: 9780008120887

Verlag: The Friday Project, 2015

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A New York Times Bestseller

‘Hilarious. Schumacher brilliantly uses the epistolary form to show Jay’s desperation in the face of his crumbling university, career, life.’ New York Times

‘Witty. Schumacher manipulates the epistolary genre to great effect.’ Independent

'I love this novel ... Very funny and clever.' Viv Groskop, Red Magazine

'The art of writing letters is slowly disappearing, but Julie Schumacher’s hilarious, heart-warming and, at times, sad, novel Dear Committee Members is a perfect illustration of the power of words written in ink on paper. Epistolary novels are difficult to pull off, but Schumacher succeeds, putting together a novel through which the voice and character of the protagonist shine through in every funny, painful, cringe-worthy and heartbreaking letter.' Sarah Shaffi, The Bookseller

‘A smart-as-hell, fun-as-heck novel composed entirely of recommendation letters.’ Newsweek

‘Bitterly hilarious ... I urgently recommend this novel.’ Wall Street Journal

‘A funny and lacerating novel of academia written in the form of letters of recommendation.’ Slate

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Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.

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• Verlag: The Friday Project
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0008120889
• ISBN 13: 9780008120887
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300