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- catalog abstract ""When Professor Lauren Goldberg drops dead in her windowless office, her job in the English department (a line item in the budget) is up for grabs. Her opportunistic colleagues eye this nifty nugget, snub any dignified lull for the obsequies, and begin at once to tussle." "In this comic novel about job scrambling in academe Sondra Spatt Olsen exposes the messiness in an urban university of the mid-eighties, a time of hefty budget cuts, occupational instability, Machiavellian strategems, and scholastic angst. Signs of breakdown are ubiquitous. Hallways are dark, classrooms are cold, and chalk is scarce." "Who will win Lauren's post? None of the posturing candidates is a shoo-in. All jostle for favor, money, power, and prestige. Cherry Binder, the department's popular feminist scholar, has been bringing her infant to class and breast-feeding in the office. In an endless, shameful quest to nail down his tenure Brian McGlinchee has forged his student evaluation forms. Moreover, he is having an affair with one of his students. Nor could George Reilly, the department's playboy and the late Lauren's lover, be earmarked as a stable candidate. He goes bonkers at the memorial service. Steve Speck - young, naive, and introspective - is more interested in index cards and note topics than in his own promotion." "Added to this assorted cast of professorial misfits that keep the plot careening are a distinguished African American professor, a Russian poet, a beastly administrator, a crusty custodian, and the world's oldest graduate assistant."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13237016.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""When Professor Lauren Goldberg drops dead in her windowless office, her job in the English department (a line item in the budget) is up for grabs. Her opportunistic colleagues eye this nifty nugget, snub any dignified lull for the obsequies, and begin at once to tussle." "In this comic novel about job scrambling in academe Sondra Spatt Olsen exposes the messiness in an urban university of the mid-eighties, a time of hefty budget cuts, occupational instability, Machiavellian strategems, and scholastic angst. Signs of breakdown are ubiquitous. Hallways are dark, classrooms are cold, and chalk is scarce." "Who will win Lauren's post? None of the posturing candidates is a shoo-in. All jostle for favor, money, power, and prestige. Cherry Binder, the department's popular feminist scholar, has been bringing her infant to class and breast-feeding in the office. In an endless, shameful quest to nail down his tenure Brian McGlinchee has forged his student evaluation forms. Moreover, he is having an affair with one of his students. Nor could George Reilly, the department's playboy and the late Lauren's lover, be earmarked as a stable candidate. He goes bonkers at the memorial service. Steve Speck - young, naive, and introspective - is more interested in index cards and note topics than in his own promotion." "Added to this assorted cast of professorial misfits that keep the plot careening are a distinguished African American professor, a Russian poet, a beastly administrator, a crusty custodian, and the world's oldest graduate assistant."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "254 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Lauren's line.".
- catalog identifier "157806614X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lauren's line.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
- catalog relation "Lauren's line.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 22".
- catalog subject "College teachers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "English philology Study and teaching (Higher) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "English philology Study and teaching Fiction.".
- catalog subject "English teachers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3565.L79 L38 2004".
- catalog title "Lauren's line / Sondra Spatt Olsen.".
- catalog type "College stories. lcsh".
- catalog type "College stories.".
- catalog type "Humorous fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".