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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312186968
ISBN number: 0312186967
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: April 15, 1998
Publishing house: Picador
Sale Popularity Level: 352808
Studio: Picador
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Publishing house's Weekly Best Book of the Year
Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are 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 an ideological twist.
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A typical line from Publish and Perish is the final thought of a character who's about to die in an oh-so-dreadful fashion: 'This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.' Horror and humour together are always delightful, but rarely is the combination executed with such gleeful panache as in the three novellas that make up Publish and Perish. The humour is at the expense of American academics, from struggling postdocs to crusty full professors. The characters spout silly jargon, wrestle with their writing problems, preen their tender egos, and skewer their colleagues. Most are likeable: their vanity is so human, it's almost touching. But the horror isn't played for laughs; it's ruthless and chilling, in the tradition of Edgar A. Poe and M. R. James. As one New York Times reviewer writes, 'Publish and Perish is an odd and exhilarating experience--the playfulness of post-modernism at its best somehow celebrating the urgent, earnest suspense of old-fashioned, cliff-hanging narrative.'
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This collection of 3 interconnected novellas set in academia was a highly entertaining read. The felines creeping through the text were not all that earned this work a comparison to Poe. Suspenseful and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.
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I bought this book after loving The Lecturer's Tale, so I was almost angry after reading this mediocre and often crude collection of novellas. I expected so much more -- I felt almost cheated. I found most of the writing to be sloppy and sometimes puerile. I suppose I could go into detail as to why, but the short version is...I just didn't like it at all. I'm glad that I'd already read The Lecturer's Tale, because I would never have done so had I read this book first. Don't bother.
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Publish and Perish comprises three creepy novellas, all involving professional academics with roots in the University of the Midwest in Hamilton Groves, MN. Each tale is a spooky satire on the cut-throat intrigues that characterize contemporary academe. "Queen of the Jungle" deals with the unusual fallout from a career-driven commuter marriage, including marital infidelity, feline incontinence, and gypsy mysteries, but it does so without providing one likable character. "99" (which begins on page 99---talk about good typesetting!) relates the misadventures of one Gregory Eyck, an arrogant and downwarly mobile cultural anthropologist (with tenure!) who inadvertantly ends up doing fieldwork on neo-pagan sacrifice---from the inside. Though the story was fun, it was definitely derivative of the classic novel and film "The Wicker Man." The last, longest, and arguably best story, "Casting the Runes," is based upon names and ideas in the M.R. James ghost story of the same name. In it a young postmodern historian fights not only for tenure, but for her very life, against an eldritch elder professor who will stop at nothing to maintain his career. All in all a fun, spooky, intelligent, but disposable read.
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This was a great book. I don't write reviews much, but this one was worth writing in about.
The cat story had me looking at our cats in a different way for a few hours after I finished it. Apparently this author's sinister portrayal in the very first story got to me a little.
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Don't read Tale #1.
I was so repulsed, I couldn't force myself through Tales 2 and 3.
Not to mention, other authors have used the exact same plot. Do we REALLY need more stories about torturing animals? Ugh.
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