Moo jane smiley book review5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other staff members jostling for position include Ivar Harstad, the university's ineffectual provost Loraine Walker, his secretary, who really runs the place (and isn't above quietly shuffling money in and out of departments, depending on who gains her favor) associate English professor Timothy Monahan, whose social climbing in New York publishing is one of the book's funniest sequences and earthy Helen Levy, professor of foreign languages, who likes to make life uncomfortable for her pompous male colleagues. Lionel Gift, self-satisfied apostle of free-market economics, and "Chairman X," an unreconstructed '60s radical who heads the horticulture department. Budget cuts have been imposed by the state's yahoo governor the faculty will have to clean their own offices, and food services will be taken over by McDonald's, which has no use for the unionized kitchen staff. At an unnamed Midwestern state university familiarly known as Moo U., the academic year 1989-90 is not going well. A comic novel proves an agreeable change of pace for the ordinarily serious-minded Smiley ( A Thousand Acres, 1991, etc.). ![]()
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