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The Meade solution
- Title
- The Meade solution / Robert J. Conley.
- Author
- Conley, Robert J.
- Publication
- Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [1998], ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.O494 M43 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 164 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Wahoo Meade is a graduate student at Stanhope University and the ringleader of a small group of graduate teaching assistants in English. They are all about to graduate and are faced with bleak job prospects. The MLA Vacancies List this year, they say, is a No-Vacancies List. There seems to be no hope. Ph.D.'s are parking cars for a living. Then one day, one of the old dusty tenured professors in the English department is killed in his office when a whole wall of his books falls on him.
- He is not missed for several days. When the accident is at last discovered, Meade is struck by a promising thought, "Anything can happen to these eccentric old professors and nobody would think anything about it.".
- Meade sets about systematically studying the eccentricities of individual professors in the department and scheming their demises - thereby creating the much-coveted vacancies. All goes well until he strikes up a romance with the wife of one of the newest eccentric professors, and she begins to see through "The Meade Solution."
- ISBN
- 0870814796 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97048703
- OCLC
- ocm38030247
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries