Book Review
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by Jane Smiley
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digitalemur recommended this to me after I started at Berklee. I am quite glad she did, because this book amused me to no end. Moo is set at a large midwestern university and has a huge cast of characters that encompasses student, faculty, administrators, and staff. Especially entertaining to me was the fact that the provost and his assistant were prominent characters.
The narrative is driven by the vicissitudes of the university's funding, but the real plot is a set of smaller interlocking stories about the personal and professional lives of the characters. Smiley creates a warm, funny, and utterly convincing picture of the life of a university, complete with relationship tangles, maneuvering for promotions, political activism, hustling for grants and donations, and plenty of conniving.
by Jane Smiley
digitalemur recommended this to me after I started at Berklee. I am quite glad she did, because this book amused me to no end. Moo is set at a large midwestern university and has a huge cast of characters that encompasses student, faculty, administrators, and staff. Especially entertaining to me was the fact that the provost and his assistant were prominent characters.The narrative is driven by the vicissitudes of the university's funding, but the real plot is a set of smaller interlocking stories about the personal and professional lives of the characters. Smiley creates a warm, funny, and utterly convincing picture of the life of a university, complete with relationship tangles, maneuvering for promotions, political activism, hustling for grants and donations, and plenty of conniving.
