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The author of Publish and Perish returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academeNelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power--he can force his will onto others with a touch of his finger. And so he obtains an extension on the lease of his university-owned townhouse and picks up two sections of freshman composition, saving his career from utter ruin. But soon these victories seem inconsequential, and Nelson's finger burns for even greater glory. Now the Midas of academia wonders if he can attain what every struggling assistant professor and visiting lecturer covets--tenure.A pitch-perfect blend of satire and horror, The Lecturer's Tale paints a gruesomely clever portrait of life in academia.
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The Lecturer's Tale Paperback - 2002
by James Hynes
The author of "Publish and Perish" returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe. The perfect-pitch blend of satire and horror, it is the story of an English lecturer who gets the axe at his job, loses his finger in a freak accident, and then finds that he has acquired a strange power: he can force his will onto others with the touch of his reattached finger.
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- Title The Lecturer's Tale
- Author James Hynes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA, New York
- Date 2002-02-09
- ISBN 9780312287719 / 0312287712
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 01/27/2002, Page 24
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