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The cheese monkeys
a novel in two semesters
By Kidd, Chip
- ISBN
- 978-0-74321-492-6
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2001
A sharp, fast-paced, and well-packaged academic satire, along the lines of James Hyne's The Lecturer's Tale (LJ 12/00), this is a coming-of-age story from the point of view of the paying victim (a.k.a. the student). A na ve fellow finds himself in the hallowed, cinderblock halls of his state art school in the 1950s where, try as he might, he can't quite capture in pencil the essence of a decapitated waterfowl, an old shoe, and a detumescent pomegranate. No wonder he beco...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
