Book description
Brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university.
Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University is in a state of disarray...
In this witty and biting comedy of manners, Jane Smiley turns her wryly perceptive eye towards a community where men and women, the innocent and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Moo as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m an academic, and it is always fun to read a novel that skewers our eccentricities and egotism (there, I admitted it).
What’s great about Moo is that it gives us an academic satire in an unexpected setting—not an eastern liberal arts college but a state university in a Midwestern state that couldn’t possibly be Iowa (or could it?). Leading characters teach botany and animal husbandry. One of them is a very large pig—a real pig, not a metaphorical one. And the book is very, very funny.
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