The vivisectors : a novel / Missouri Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Missouri, 1992- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

College students--Fiction.

College students.

Gardeners--Fiction.

Gardeners.

Gardening--Fiction.

Gardening.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

University towns--Fiction.

University towns.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Revolutions--Fiction.

Revolutions.

Suicide--Fiction.

Suicide.

Genre:

Dystopian fiction.

Horror fiction.

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.

Summary:

"In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where power is held in a fragile balance between academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, the reclusive narrator of The Vivisectors spends her days propping up the career of her needy and fraudulent professor boss. Then a controversy ruptures her careful routine: Adam, a contrarian student and an obsession of the boss, comes into heated conflict with a young professor, with both men claiming discrimination. The crisis subsumes the university, though the narrator is unmoved--not even the attempted suicide of her estranged mother has been enough to dispel her lack of engagement with the world. But when her boss commands her to befriend Adam, the narrator finds herself both caught up in the events threatening to tear the city apart and increasingly drawn to the alluring student at the heart of it all."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780374619299

0374619298

OCLC:

1535693752