A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year
A "Publisher's Weekly" Best Book of the YearCombining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia--a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological pos[...]

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