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Pictures from an institution : a comedy / by Randall Jarrell.
LIBRA - Special PS3519.A86 P5 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
- Series:
- Phoenix fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's colleges--Fiction.
- Women's colleges.
- Genre:
- Satirical literature.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- "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
- ISBN:
- 0226393747
- 9780226393742
- OCLC:
- 12662823
- Online:
- Publisher description
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