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MOO
Author: Jane Smiley
Book Description: — Jane Smiley's new novel -- the first since her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, A Thousand Acres -- is her most ambitious (and delicious) yet: a rich, blackly comic, brilliantly on-target send-up of our society. — As a microcosm of today's Western world, Jane Smiley gives us a Midwestern university nicknamed (in honor of its ...  more »
ISBN: 82701
Pages: 414
Rating:
  • Currently 4.8/5 Stars.
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4.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopff
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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mcpenguin5 avatar reviewed MOO on + 93 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I found this book slightly disappointing. It was amusing, but no where near the quality of writing I had expected from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. I trifle disjointed, it explores the silly and outrageous antics of a midwestern college campus. The politics of the staff and administration, the emotional upheavals of the undergraduates, and all the goings-on of the people who wrestle for grant money for the university. It has a lot going for it, but did not live up to expectations.
reviewed MOO on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Still trying to figure this one out. Decided reading it again wasn't going to help
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Helpful Score: 3
Based on Iowa State University, where she taught for a number of years. Sorta snide and exploitive. Really bites the hand that fed her.
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Helpful Score: 1
Entertaining, fast, hilrious - midwest college life.
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Helpful Score: 1
A very funny book, a satire which also manages to tug at your heartstrings.
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Anyone who attended a large midwestern land grant university will find this an incredibly funny book! Dead on.
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Precious book. Loved it!


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