- English literature, Faculty, History and criticism, Universities and colleges
A hilarious murder mystery that skewers both publishing and academia with pure "old-fashioned comic storytelling" . "Grudin . . . has . . . taken the genre of the academic satire . . . and run it through the post-structuralist dicer."
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Comic, cool, warm and ironic.
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- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Grudin
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing, Random House, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679411857
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