Set against the backdrop of a deeply troubled, psychotic female student infecting men with the AIDS virus and a fanatical board member taking over the college, "The Plague Year" is a Swiftian black satire of college life in the mid-nineties.
This haunting detective story echoes Daniel Defoe's "The Journal of the Plague Year" in its stunning depiction of the horrors and fears of a spreading disease.
"The Plague Year" is a searing indictment of modern college life and delves deeply into the self-absorbed, narcissistic lives of some contemporary college students.
When a favorite professor...
Set against the backdrop of a deeply troubled, psychotic female student infecting men with the AIDS virus and a fanatical board member taking over the...
"Dinner for Two" is a feisty, irreverent novel about a fifty-something professor and his dinner dates with a female student. Jack Burns is currently dating Jessica Fontaine, an English major, who is mesmerized by the notorious professor's extraordinary tales of drunken debauchery, chronic drug addiction, crimes of robbery as the "Speedy Bandit," and his wild adventures in exotic countries like searching for the opium-addled "Flat Man" in the heart of Mexico. Jessica finds out his sister thinks she is a character in a Bob Dylan song, and all the men in his family are alcoholic, and all the...
"Dinner for Two" is a feisty, irreverent novel about a fifty-something professor and his dinner dates with a female student. Jack Burns is currently d...
