Lionel Gift, an intellectual whore who calls students "customers" and is willing to skew research to further his name and line his pocketbook Dr. Among the more egregious types that Smiley portrays are Dr. has an agenda: academic, sexual, social, economic, political and philosophical. The setting is a large midwestern agricultural college known as Moo U., whose faculty and students Smiley depicts with sophisticated humor, turning a gimlet eye on the hypocrisy, egomania, prejudice and self-delusion that flourish on campus-and also reflect society at large.
This text refers to the Paperback edition.Įffortlessly switching gears after the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres, Smiley delivers a surprising tour de force, a satire of university life that leaves no aspect of contemporary academia unscathed. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the prizewinning author of A Thousand Acres, offers a wickedly funny, darkly poignant comedy. The hallowed halls of Moo University, a midwestern agricultural institution (aka "cow college"), are rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upsmanship.
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