"A work of sheer joy."
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Three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia—a world where Derrida rules, love is "a complicated ideological position," and poetic justice is served with a supernatural twist. Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, Publish and Perish is stylish, unsettling, and funny on every page.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Riveting...exhilarating...a work of sheer joy." -Cathleen Schine, The New York Times Book Review "Entirely delightful...wickedly funny...There hasn't been a genuinely adroit novel of academic manners since Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Hynes must have struck a pact with the devil when he began writing these tales because their tone is perfect." -Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air "Deliciously creepy novellas...Hynes's writing is diamond sharp, revealing his characters' souls as surely as a Judgment Day angel." -Amy Waldman, People |