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Japanese by Spring

By Ishmael Reed

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Japanese by Spring

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Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and appoints Puttbutt as academic dean, the fun really begins-for Puttbutt sets out to stir things up and settle old scores. Turning every contemporary political and social movement on its head-from feminism to nationalism to jingoism-this boistrois and irreverent novel manages to be by turns hilarious and totally serious. "One of the funniest satires of university politics I've ever read. Ishmael Reed is funnier than Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal." -Leslie Marmon Silko "Reed is, as always, an American original; a wiseguy whose wisdom is the real thing," -The Boston Sunday Globe
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
1996-08-29
Publication Date:
1996-08-01
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140255850
ISBN13:
9780140255850
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
173 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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