Professed

A Novel of Higher Education

von Lowell Mick White

182 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and many weirdnesses American higher education—favor-dodging, ex-girlfriend avoiding, grade-dreading, plagiarist-busting, dissertation-reading, office-mate annoying, litter-box spilling, book-stealing, unprofessional forbidden lusting, unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling, lost cat-chasing, wrist-breaking, inopportune body-betraying, boring boyfriend-dumping planning, dead professor missing, committee-meeting texting, student misfiling, classroom failing, hidden Confederate-history uncovering, book-writing, student advising, professional dysphoria-feeling, drunk-tank loitering, book discussion-leading, unwise nasal behaving, paper researching, non-academic schooling, sink fouling, New Years’ kissing, celebratory pool-playing, stranger-disemboweling, paper-writing attempting, paper-writing failing, drinking-game playing, incompletetaking…yet, as the characters fight to fit into a rapidly-changing institution, medicating themselves as best they can with sex, drugs, and literature, learning actually happens——Somehow.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781943306039
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2016
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Buffalo Times Press