Book Overview
Student riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university's plebeian stepchild, University College,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0449007030
ISBN13:9780449007037
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Fawcett Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 4.2" x 7.0"
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One of Amanda Cross's 3 or 4 best
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This is one of Amanda Cross's best, wittiest, best conceived mysteries. The characters are well drawn and three dimensional. Some of her descriptions were so true to type that I laughed until I cried. It may be her most literary novel. Each chapter is introduced by a quotation from the great English poet, W.H. Auden and Auden is present --though generally in absentia -- throughout the novel. The mysterious death of one of the University's most bigoted faculty members is presented against an accurate picture of University politics, during the Columbia student revolt of the last '60s. (The author, AKA Carolyn G. Heilbrun, is Professor Emeritus from Columbia, where she was awarded an endowed Chair in Humanities after teaching Victorian literature for many years.) Lionel Trilling, the great American literary critic and scholar appears, thinly disguised as "Frederick Cremance." Trilling/Cremance coined and popularized the expression "the life of the mind." Heinlein was one of his students, though he doubted that women were capable of having a "life of the mind." As Kate Fansler she has an opportunity to challenge him at long last. The writing is graceful, literary and tasteful.
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