Evil : a novel / Diane Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Diane, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne : Spinifex Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Newly appointed professor Dee P. Scrutari turns her anthropological gaze on the tribe of males who dominate St. Jude's, a prestigious Jesuit liberal arts college in the northeast United States. When she can't get a straight answer to her question of what happened to the previous occupant of her freshly painted office, she teams up with a band of colleagues marginalized by the college?a liberation theology nun, a gay priest, and a Jew?to find out what evil lurks in the department of religious studies. A feminist spoof at once funny, sobering, provocative, and full of affection for the acad

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; 1 MEETING THE NATIVES; 2 THE ELDERS MEET; 3 WORKING STORIES; 4 GOING TO THE CHAPEL; 5 ALUMNI WEEKEND; 6 CONSPIRACIES AND COALITIONS; 7 SECRETS, CELEBRATIONS, AND SPEECHES; 8 MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM; 9 NEW STEPS; 10 TENURE TROUBLES; 11 COLUMBUS DAY; 12 WOW; 13 DINNER WITH THE JESUITS; 14 HOMILIES, EPIPHANIES, AND LENT; 15 CONNECTING THE DOTS; 16 OPENING THE CLOSETS; 17 CALLING THE NAMES; 18 A BOOK PARTY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-74219-417-6

1-74219-056-1

OCLC:

476232765