Moo (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Smiley
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Communism or communists, Education or educators, Economics, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, Pigs, Personality, Money, Agriculture, Colleges or universities, Higher education, Governors
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
In seventy brief and snappy chapters set at a Midwestern university called “Moo U.,” MOO offers up a portrait of contemporary academe as a theater for horseplay. At the center of campus is an old, abandoned abattoir called “Old Meats.” Locked away within Old Meats is Earl Butz, a grotesquely bloated white Landrace boar who is “the secret hog at the center of the university,” as if there were some dim, essential link between a research pig bred to swill and swell and a publicly funded university. Following the rhythms of a single, eventful academic year, Smiley employs an...
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