Beet: A Novel (P.S.)

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Release Year
2009
ISBN
9780061344282
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061344281
ISBN-13
9780061344282
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69602177

Product Key Features

Book Title
Beet : a Novel
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Satire, General, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Author
Roger Rosenblatt
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"This is Mr. Rosenblatt's first novel. I hope it's not his last." -- New York Sun "[An] uproarious debut.... Rosenblatt wields his satiric saber with skill and compassion. A-." -- Entertainment Weekly "Great stuff." -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Roger Rosenblatt's dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary,or our most audacious visionary comic?"--Joyce Carol Oates Beet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indiscriminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Sweet-tempered terrorist hopeful Akim Ben Ladin (né Arthur Horowitz) sits in his off-campus cave and dreams about blowing Beet up. Faculty members are too busy concocting useless, trendy courses to do anything about it. Not to mention that American higher education is going down the tubes, one less lesser school isn't going to matter. So why is Professor Peace Porterfield trying to save Beet? Beats us. "Rosenblatt [applies] his sharp wit to elite education."--Wall Street Journal, Roger Rosenblatt's dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display.... Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary, or our most audacious visionary comic?"--Joyce Carol Oates Beet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indiscriminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Sweet-tempered terrorist hopeful Akim Ben Ladin (n Arthur Horowitz) sits in his off-campus cave and dreams about blowing Beet up. Faculty members are too busy concocting useless, trendy courses to do anything about it. Not to mention that American higher education is going down the tubes, one less lesser school isn't going to matter. So why is Professor Peace Porterfield trying to save Beet? Beats us. "Rosenblatt applies] his sharp wit to elite education." --Wall Street Journal

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