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Book: A Novel
Book A Novel
Author: Robert Grudin
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.
ISBN-13: 9780517143964
ISBN-10: 0517143968
Publication Date: 5/6/1995
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Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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The English department at the University of Washagon is in an uproar. Professor Adem Snell--humanist, scholar, gadfly and faculty pariah--has disappeared without a trace.
Stranger still, all coppies of his obscure but brilliant novel, Sovrana Sostrata, also seems to missing.
Has Snell been murdered? Has his book been murdered? And more important, if Snell is not dead, does his department hae the power to fire him at his upcoming post-tenture review?
So the the book begins....