A New Life (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Seymour Levin, a Jewish college professor. He is a thirty-year-old, bearded, East Coast liberal, recovering from a two-year drinking episode following his mother’s suicide and his rejection by his lover. A failure in love and in his profession, Levin goes to the West Coast to teach in the English department of a state university, hoping to start a new life. By mistake, he finds himself at the state technical school rather than at the liberal arts school. He quickly becomes embroiled in the departmental squabbles about textbooks and the relative importance...

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