This book will make you happy without lying to you. Behind the
skill of its plotting, the range of its topics, the subtlety of the
characterization and the felicity of the writing beats a warm
heart. From the woman who brought you King Lear transposed to the
prairie in A Thousand Acres (and won the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award for it), we now have a playful
university-campus novel featuring, among many other things, the
Wodehousian touch of a prize pig. Agriculture rouses strong
passions at the Midwestern Moo U, as do the machinations of
university administrators in their quest for funding; the conflict
is local and comic but the issues are global and serious. The cast
of the novel encompasses a 1960s radical, a free-market economist,
a farmer who wears a bullet-proof vest, a creationist who wants to
get married, a Texan billionaire with jug ears and half a dozen
students - but you are never in danger of forgetting who anyone is,
though you may sometimes be surprised by their sleeping partners.
(Kirkus UK)
Brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university.
Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University is
in a state of disarray... In this witty and biting comedy of
manners, Jane Smiley turns her wryly perceptive eye towards a
community where men and women, the innocent and the cynical,
thinkers and careerists, live and work together - in complete
disharmony. 'Satire on a grand scale, a microscopic examination of
contemporary American mores conducted with great wit and gracious
indulgence for human frailty ...Trying to describe this book's
marvellous variety is like trying to describe London to someone who
has never been there. The only appropriate exhortation is "Read
it."'
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