Moo - Softcover

Smiley, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449910237 ISBN 13: 9780449910238

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

A wickedly funny comedy is set in the heart of the midwest at the distinguished Moo University, where respectable pursuits in art, science, and agriculture give way to devious plots, mischievous intrigue, and irresistible eccentricities. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

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Jane Smiley is the author of eleven novels, as well as four works of nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She lives in Northern California.

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ABLY ENTERTAINING. . . . An uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest."
--The New York Times
Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Nonahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly fu

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0449910237
• ISBN 13: 9780449910238
• Einband: Tapa blanda
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