100,000 first printing BOMC selection Random House Audio author tour. The narrative sails along with unflagging vigor and cleverness, and even the ironic denouement has an inevitability that Smiley orchestrates with hilarious wit. Details of midwest topography, weather and culture are rendered with unerring authenticity. A quartet of women roommates who all hide secrets from each other, an unscrupulous ``little Texan with jug ears'' who wants to give the college tainted money, and a stuffy dean who thinks that anything he desires is God's will are some of the large cast of characters that Smiley manipulates with remarkable ease-and though some portrayals verge on caricature, she never goes over the line. acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). A chapter titled ``Who's in Bed With Whom'' clears things up in that department-but only temporarily, since musical beds is a continuous game. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. Bo Jones, who is conducting a secret experiment on an appealing boar named Earl Butz (Earl and the horses on campus are nicer than the humans by a mile) and a superlatively bossy secretary who is a lot smarter than the Ph.Ds she serves. Lionel Gift, an intellectual whore who calls students ``customers'' and is willing to skew research to further his name and line his pocketbook Dr. Among the more egregious types that Smiley portrays are Dr. has an agenda: academic, sexual, social, economic, political and philosophical. The setting is a large midwestern agricultural college known as Moo U., whose faculty and students Smiley depicts with sophisticated humor, turning a gimlet eye on the hypocrisy, egomania, prejudice and self-delusion that flourish on campus-and also reflect society at large. Effortlessly switching gears after the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres, Smiley delivers a surprising tour de force, a satire of university life that leaves no aspect of contemporary academia unscathed. Moo is Jane Smileys terrific send-up of education, bureaucracy, racism, politics, love and just about everything else in the 1980s.

Moo by jane smiley