Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his younger daughter or come to terms with his father, he has a dangerous philosophy that life, and academic life, could be simpler, but he fails to see the larger consequences of his own actions or of the small-world politics that ebb and flow around him, as his colleagues jostle for position and marriages fall apart and regroup.
The despair of his wife, and the scourge of the campus geese, he is a man at odds with himself and caught somewhere between cause and effect.
| ISBN: | 9780099376217 |
| Publication date: | 4th June 1998 |
| Author: | Richard Russo |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 391 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Humour |
Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his younger daughter or come to terms with his father, he has a dangerous philosophy that life, and academic life, could be simpler, but he fails to see the larger consequences of his own actions or of the small-world politics that ebb and flow around him, as his colleagues jostle for position and marriages fall apart and regroup.
Straight Man features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Humour
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Straight Man was written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Straight Man has 391 pages
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