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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385538138
ISBN-13
9780385538138
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177264606
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dear Committee Members
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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2013-043014
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Praise for Dear Committee Members : "A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom... [A] mordant minor masterpiece... Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts. --NPR "[A] very funny epistolary novel composed of recommendation letters... It's an unusual form for comedy, but it works. Truth is stranger than fiction in this acid satire of the academic doldrums." -- Kirkus Reviews "A funny and lacerating novel of academia written in the form of letters of recommendation... Dear Committee Members isn't really an academic novel, or even an academic satire. It's a sincere exploration of the depths and breadths of human selfishness, and the contemporary American academy is simply the backdrop... So in the end, it is exactly Fitger's selfishness that destructs, rather than his life--and although his semi-redemption may not redeem the rank carcass of academic culture that continues to fester around him, it's more than enough to recommend this mischievous novel. -- Slate "Schumacher's warm satire of the peculiarities of the Ivory Tower will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the bureaucracy and internal politics of higher education." -- Booklist "A clever epistolary send-up of academic logrolling." --Shelf Awareness "Let's not look at this as an epistolary novel about the academic world, but as a laying out of the Tarot cards of our society's past and future. It's that indicative. That important. In the end, the future looks not quite so grim, but my reading is that like so many novels that investigate independence and fierce belief (with Melville in the lead), we have to read between the lines, infer, assume, and hope that the American virtues of compassion, empathy, and even wild projection will continue. This is a funny, very sad, disarming novel. My pitch to Hollywood would be: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress meets Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood but--and here I'm just another expendable would-be savior, like Ms. Schumacher's character Jay Fitger--nobody would know what I was talking about. My hat's off to the author of this flawlessly written, highwire act of a book. Hollywood be damned." --Ann Beattie, author of Chilly Scenes of Winter and The New Yorker Stories " Dear Committee Members is a brilliant book that, in my head, sits comfortably on my prized shelf of academic novels, right between Lucky Jim and Pictures from an Institution . But it's funnier than either, and more wrenching in the end. The conceit of a novel told in letters of reference is inspired, and it is killingly funny because it's all so killingly true. Truth walks here in the strangest of costumes, and in part because of its guises, we can face it, frown, laugh, cry. I've never lost an afternoon so happily." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and The Passages of H.M. "Julie Schumacher has perfectly rendered a portrait of the artist not as a young man but as the beleaguered tenured has-been surly lovable anachronistic man he's become. At once satire and tribute, the book alludes to a time in America's past both in literature and academia, and the passage of that heady heyday is hilariously--and bittersweetly--displayed in this genius borrowed form. Never have letters of recommendation made me happier to encounter them." --Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once: Stories and Bound, Praise for Dear Committee Members : "[A] very funny epistolary novel composed of recommendation letters... It's an unusual form for comedy, but it works. Truth is stranger than fiction in this acid satire of the academic doldrums." --Kirkus Reviews "Let's not look at this as an epistolary novel about the academic world, but as a laying out of the Tarot cards of our society's past and future. It's that indicative. That important. In the end, the future looks not quite so grim, but my reading is that like so many novels that investigate independence and fierce belief (with Melville in the lead), we have to read between the lines, infer, assume, and hope that the American virtues of compassion, empathy, and even wild projection will continue. This is a funny, very sad, disarming novel. My pitch to Hollywood would be: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress meets Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood but--and here I'm just another expendable would-be savior, like Ms. Schumacher's character Jay Fitger--nobody would know what I was talking about. My hat's off to the author of this flawlessly written, highwire act of a book. Hollywood be damned." --Ann Beattie, author of Chilly Scenes of Winter and The New Yorker Stories " Dear Committee Members is a brilliant book that, in my head, sits comfortably on my prized shelf of academic novels, right between Lucky Jim and Pictures from an Institution . But it's funnier than either, and more wrenching in the end. The conceit of a novel told in letters of reference is inspired, and it is killingly funny because it's all so killingly true. Truth walks here in the strangest of costumes, and in part because of its guises, we can face it, frown, laugh, cry. I've never lost an afternoon so happily." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and The Passages of H.M. "Julie Schumacher has perfectly rendered a portrait of the artist not as a young man but as the beleaguered tenured has-been surly lovable anachronistic man he's become. At once satire and tribute, the book alludes to a time in America's past both in literature and academia, and the passage of that heady heyday is hilariously--and bittersweetly--displayed in this genius borrowed form. Never have letters of recommendation made me happier to encounter them." --Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once: Stories and Bound, Praise for Dear Committee Members : "[A] very funny epistolary novel composed of recommendation letters... It's an unusual form for comedy, but it works. Truth is stranger than fiction in this acid satire of the academic doldrums." --Kirkus Reviews " Dear Committee Members is a brilliant book that, in my head, sits comfortably on my prized shelf of academic novels, right between Lucky Jim and Pictures from an Institution . But it's funnier than either, and more wrenching in the end. The conceit of a novel told in letters of reference is inspired, and it is killingly funny because it's all so killingly true. Truth walks here in the strangest of costumes, and in part because of its guises, we can face it, frown, laugh, cry. I've never lost an afternoon so happily." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and The Passages of H.M. "Julie Schumacher has perfectly rendered a portrait of the artist not as a young man but as the beleaguered tenured has-been surly lovable anachronistic man he's become. At once satire and tribute, the book alludes to a time in America's past both in literature and academia, and the passage of that heady heyday is hilariously--and bittersweetly--displayed in this genius borrowed form. Never have letters of recommendation made me happier to encounter them." --Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once: Stories and Bound, Praise for Dear Committee Members : "[A] very funny epistolary novel composed of recommendation letters... It's an unusual form for comedy, but it works. Truth is stranger than fiction in this acid satire of the academic doldrums." -- Kirkus Reviews "A funny and lacerating novel of academia written in the form of letters of recommendation... Dear Committee Members isn't really an academic novel, or even an academic satire. It's a sincere exploration of the depths and breadths of human selfishness, and the contemporary American academy is simply the backdrop... So in the end, it is exactly Fitger's selfishness that destructs, rather than his life--and although his semi-redemption may not redeem the rank carcass of academic culture that continues to fester around him, it's more than enough to recommend this mischievous novel. -- Slate "Schumacher's warm satire of the peculiarities of the Ivory Tower will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the bureaucracy and internal politics of higher education." -- Booklist "A clever epistolary send-up of academic logrolling." --Shelf Awareness "Let's not look at this as an epistolary novel about the academic world, but as a laying out of the Tarot cards of our society's past and future. It's that indicative. That important. In the end, the future looks not quite so grim, but my reading is that like so many novels that investigate independence and fierce belief (with Melville in the lead), we have to read between the lines, infer, assume, and hope that the American virtues of compassion, empathy, and even wild projection will continue. This is a funny, very sad, disarming novel. My pitch to Hollywood would be: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress meets Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood but--and here I'm just another expendable would-be savior, like Ms. Schumacher's character Jay Fitger--nobody would know what I was talking about. My hat's off to the author of this flawlessly written, highwire act of a book. Hollywood be damned." --Ann Beattie, author of Chilly Scenes of Winter and The New Yorker Stories " Dear Committee Members is a brilliant book that, in my head, sits comfortably on my prized shelf of academic novels, right between Lucky Jim and Pictures from an Institution . But it's funnier than either, and more wrenching in the end. The conceit of a novel told in letters of reference is inspired, and it is killingly funny because it's all so killingly true. Truth walks here in the strangest of costumes, and in part because of its guises, we can face it, frown, laugh, cry. I've never lost an afternoon so happily." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and The Passages of H.M. "Julie Schumacher has perfectly rendered a portrait of the artist not as a young man but as the beleaguered tenured has-been surly lovable anachronistic man he's become. At once satire and tribute, the book alludes to a time in America's past both in literature and academia, and the passage of that heady heyday is hilariously--and bittersweetly--displayed in this genius borrowed form. Never have letters of recommendation made me happier to encounter them." --Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once: Stories and Bound
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813/.54
Synopsis
Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work"Accountant in a Bordello," based on Melville's"Bartleby." In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend"Dear Committee Members"to you in the strongest possible terms.", Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello , based on Melville's Bartleby . In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.
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PS3569.C5548D43 2014
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- n***i (234)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaThis book' condition was listed as "good," but it actually could have been listed as brand new, making it an especially great value! There is no sign that the book was ever opened. It arrived within the original delivery window, in spite of a conflicting, and erroneous, email this morning saying that the arrival date had been delayed. All in all, a very smooth transaction. I would not hesitate to buy from this seller again. Thanks!Bridge for Beginners : A Step-By-Step Guide to Bidding, Play, Sco (#276844152851)
- 8***0 (617)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaThoroughly overjoyed to receive my book, arrived safely and securely packaged and was in good condition as described, however I was surprised to find out that it was ex libris which wasn't mentioned in the the initial description. Despite this minor glitch I am still happy with the product, great price and fast mailing,and great quality. A smooth and pleasant transaction experience with this professional eBay seller. Thanks ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Andy Warhol : A Retrospective Paperback (#276833403466)
- s***o (2395)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaListing was for a Hardcover but was sent a paperback. I contacted the seller, and they admitted the listing error and refunded my full purchase. Communication was great. Honest seller. Thank you.