Moo
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394281674 (0394281675)
Publish date: May 1st 1996
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Education,
Contemporary,
Academia
Jane Smiley is a hit or miss author for me. Sometimes she hits the target with such accuracy that her work reverberates in my life forever. Sometimes she misses.This is a miss. It's a ferociously complicated romp through a crisis year in the life of Moo University. It's witty, intelligent and often ...
I wasn't expecting this book. I'm not sure why, but I thought this was going to be a light, silly little book about Midwestern academia, sort of Straight Man for Iowa. Needless to say, this was my first Jane Smiley novel, and I picked it up because it was about a college, and because it's called M...