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Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to ... More

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Thirty years ago and full of hope, on their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their future that's ... More

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A professor of conspiracy theory, who spends his days proving the sinister interconnectedness of seemingly random events, finds his well-ordered life ... More

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Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist ... More

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A wickedly funny black comedy from actor Thewlis, this work features a man whose midlife crisis leads him to acts of not-so-quiet desperation, ... More

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Jerry King tries to be as inept as possible in his role as a professor, but his inability to get anything done only makes him more appealing to his ... More

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Jerry King tries to be as inept as possible in his role as a professor, but his inability to get anything done only makes him more appealing to his ... More

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By the author of "Love and Death of Long Island" and "The Holy Innocents", this is a black satire of contemporary theoretical cultishness and a ... More

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Using an actual turn-of-the-century anarchist commune on Washington's south Puget Sound as the backdrop, Hazard Adams tells the story of Edward ... More

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This first novel from the acclaimed memoirist Gordon is a tart and intelligent comedy of manners revolving around the Humanities department of a ... More

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The story of one man's life, from Independence Day one year to Christmas of the next. The narrator and protagonist, Peter Jernigan, is a man who has ... More

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These three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia--a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position", and poetic ... More

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"David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together for the first time in the U.S. in one volume, expose the world ... More

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In this outrageously ribald and farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible WESCAC computer system that threatens to ... More

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Sor Avraham is a university professor and married man of unswerving principles-until he meets the mysterious Marguerite Spares. Marguerite is also a ... More

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Anne felt ashamed of herself for not liking Laura, the new au pair. There seemed no justification for it. But even Jane Watson, a valuable and ... More

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Letting Go is Philip Roth's first full-length novel, published when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s, Chicago, New York, and Iowa City, Letting Go ... More

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Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and ... More

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The classic novel of a middle-aged man's affair with a worldly younger woman.

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