Pictures From an Institution - A Comedy

Informationen zum Autor Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was the author of six volumes of poetry and the recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1961. Pictures from an Institution is his only novel. Klappentext "The father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them all. Extraordinary to think that 'political correctness' was so deliciously dissected 50 years ago."--Noel Malcolm, "Sunday Telegraph" "Move over Dorothy Parker. Pictures . . . is less a novel than a series of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell's forte."--Mary Welp "I'm greatly impressed by the real fun, the incisive satire, the closeness of observation, and in the end by a kind of sympathy and human warmth. It's a remarkable book."--Robert Penn Warren Zusammenfassung Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits.

Product details

• Authors: Randall Jarrell, Randalll Jarrell
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9780226393759
• ISBN: 978-0-226-39375-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction Series PF (CHUP); Phoenix Fiction Series PF
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary