Moo
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Welcome to Moo University — a vast, sprawling Midwestern land-grant institution where ambition, eccentricity, and self-interest collide with glorious comedic force. Jane Smiley's Moo chronicles a single academic year at a fictional American university, populating its hallways and lecture rooms with an unforgettable cast of characters: scheming administrators, idealistic students, self-absorbed professors, and one magnificent, enormous hog named Earl, who resides in secret splendour at the heart of the campus and the novel's satirical soul. A sharp and brilliantly orchestrated ensemble comedy, Moo skewers the contradictions of American academic life — the gap between lofty intellectual ideals and the grubby realities of budget politics, romantic entanglement, and departmental rivalry. Smiley wields her Pulitzer Prize-winning command of character and place to construct a world that is at once absurdly comic and achingly recognisable, weaving together dozens of storylines with the confidence of a novelist at the peak of her powers. For anyone who has ever set foot inside a university — or simply wondered what really goes on behind those ivy-covered walls — Moo promises revelations both hilarious and unsettling.
Author: Jane Smiley
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Welcome to Moo University — a vast, sprawling Midwestern land-grant institution where ambition, eccentricity, and self-interest collide with glorious comedic force. Jane Smiley's Moo chronicles a single academic year at a fictional American university, populating its hallways and lecture rooms with an unforgettable cast of characters: scheming administrators, idealistic students, self-absorbed professors, and one magnificent, enormous hog named Earl, who resides in secret splendour at the heart of the campus and the novel's satirical soul. A sharp and brilliantly orchestrated ensemble comedy, Moo skewers the contradictions of American academic life — the gap between lofty intellectual ideals and the grubby realities of budget politics, romantic entanglement, and departmental rivalry. Smiley wields her Pulitzer Prize-winning command of character and place to construct a world that is at once absurdly comic and achingly recognisable, weaving together dozens of storylines with the confidence of a novelist at the peak of her powers. For anyone who has ever set foot inside a university — or simply wondered what really goes on behind those ivy-covered walls — Moo promises revelations both hilarious and unsettling.