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Dear Committee Members / Julie Schumacher.
"Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest ... His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels ... In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this ... novel uses to tell that tale is a series of ... letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies"--Amazon.com.
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters; his writing career is in the doldrums; his life is a tale of woe. In a series of letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, he creates small masterpieces of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385538138 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0385538138 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 180 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2014]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"--Jacket. |
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| Subject: | College teachers > Fiction. English teachers > Fiction. Employment references > Fiction. Letters > Fiction. Employment references. Letters. |
| Genre: | Epistolary fiction. Epistolary fiction. Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington Public Library | F SCHUMACH | 39851001196949 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
| Sedro-Woolley Library | ADULT FICTION SCHUMA DEAR 2014 | 20120001050359 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
JULIE SCHUMACHER grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Oberlin College and Cornell University. Her first novel,The Body Is Water, was published by Soho Press in 1995 and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Minnesota Book Award. Her other books include a short story collection,An Explanation for Chaos, and five books for younger readers. She lives in St. Paul and is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. Visit her on the web at julieschumacher.com.