Clever, perceptive and amusing writing disclosing a treasure chest of surprising gems. Discover a collection of letters of recommendation covering a period of 11 months, written by a creative writing and literature professor who feels as though his personal life and workplace are conspiring against him. The author has the gift of revealing the hidden and displaying the inaccessible in the professors world in just a few words. Each letter in itself is a little jewell, collectively they vividly illustrate the innermost workings and outspoken pouring of a mans soul. Perhaps the last thing anyone should do is ask for a letter of recommendation from this particular professor, even if deserving of the highest praise!
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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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.
Dear Committee Members features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Dear Committee Members is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Dear Committee Members was written by Julie Schumacher and published by The Friday Project Limited an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Dear Committee Members has 300 pages
£8.99
