While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. Stuffed with memorable characters, sparkling with deliciously acid humor, Moo is a rare bird in today's literary menagerie: a great read that also makes you think." -Chicago Sun-Times From the Trade Paperback edition.Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.īorn in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Displays a wicked wit and an unerring eye for American foibles. Engaging." -The Boston Globe "ENTERTAINING.
Moo suggests a mix of Tom Wolfe's wit and John Updike's satiny reach. It's going to be on the final." -People "SMART, IRREVERENT, AND WICKEDLY TENDER. Don't skip a page, don't skip a paragraph. Not for a minute does Moo lose its perfect satiric pitch or its pacing. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice of life. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried Timothy Nonahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean Mrs. An uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest." -The New York Times Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture.
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