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Moo

by Jane Smiley · 1995

As a microcosm of today's Western world Jane Smiley gives us a midwestern university nicknamed (in honor of its devotion to agriculture) Moo U. In the wake of the profligate eighties, Moo is desperate for money and rife with intrigues and machinations - private, public, sexual, intellectual, financial, technological, domestic, global, social, and political. Smiley's tone is so cool that laughter comes without warning as she lightly balances a cosmic cast (everybody in bed with somebody in the romantic or French-farcical or Washington, D.C., sense) that includes top-salaried Dr. Lionel Gift, p

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