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| #918526 in Books | 2010-04-30 | 2010-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.80 x5.25l,.65 | File type: PDF | 296 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Her muse brooded over Gertrude with calm eyes and snaky locks|By Wanda B. Red|This is the famous send-up of academic life at a small women's college modeled on Sarah Lawrence and featuring the acerbic woman novelist, Gertrude Johnson, based on Mary McCarthy. Its wit and sophistication demonstrate that academic pretentiousness and political correctness cannot be claimed as inven|.com |Randall Jarrell's only novel features a Bryn Mawr-like women's college in which whispers and verbal shivs and sycophancy rule. "Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Benton had been endowed with one to begin
Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire—and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker’s razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through t...
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