Book
by:
Robert Grudin (author)
A hilarious murder mystery that skewers both publishing and academia with pure "old-fashioned comic storytelling" (Washington Post Book World). "Grudin . . . has . . . taken the genre of the academic satire . . . and run it through the post-structuralist dicer."--New York Times Book Review.
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A hilarious murder mystery that skewers both publishing and academia with pure "old-fashioned comic storytelling" (Washington Post Book World). "Grudin . . . has . . . taken the genre of the academic satire . . . and run it through the post-structuralist dicer."--New York Times Book Review.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140231137 (0140231137)
Publish date: December 1st 1993
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This book is super weird. I can't describe it, so I'm including the book's description: The English department at the University of Washagon is in a uproar. Professor Adam Snell - humanist, scholar, gadfly and faculty pariah - has disappeared without a trace. Stranger still, all copies of his o...
Delightfully meta tale of an English professor whose work incites someone to try to murder his novel--a small press 700 volume run.Highly recommended to fans of metnarratives and to academics.
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