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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:619239215:1549
Source marc_columbia
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LEADER: 01549mam a2200313 a 4500
001 1982981
005 20220609042933.0
008 961107t19971997nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 96048578
020 $a0679432469
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm35927199
035 $9AMK1902CU
035 $a1982981
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dJQF$dSVP$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPS3568.U812$bS77 1997
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aRusso, Richard,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86089055
245 10 $aStraight man /$cRichard Russo.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axvii, 391 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aWilliam Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University.
520 8 $aOver the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a goose, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park.
650 0 $aCollege teachers$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100052
655 0 $aCollege stories.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3568.U812$iS77 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPS3568.U812$iS77 1997