The Lecturer's Tale

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Summary: Wild post-colonial professor
Review: Written by the author of the wonderful The Wild Colonial Boy and the wicked Publish or Perish, The Lecturer's Tale is a academic-life fantasy which gets ever more outlandish and wild as the story careens almost out-of-control. Hynes fills his tale chock-full of references to mid-west colleges such as the University of Michigan, so an insider's knowledge of these places only adds to the delightfully demonic humor with which Hynes scalds his subjects.

I found Hynes's book refreshing and got much pleasure seeing his writing become more & more on the edge. He caused me to laugh out loud at many of his increasingly absurd situations and terrifically complex academic intrigues. An especially enjoyable and inventive novel!