![]() ![]() ![]() In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice of life. 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. 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. 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. As a microcosm of today's western world, Smiley gives readers a huge Midwestern agricultural college nicknamed Moo U. A big, blackly comic, wickedly-on-target send up of our society-all of it-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. ![]()
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