{"product_id":"2026200013752-secondhand-moo","title":"Moo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome 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.\n\nA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160898314459,"sku":"2026200013752-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ee59642a-e0f8-47c2-bffd-3e9f2a306e49.png?v=1787188271","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013752-secondhand-moo","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}