” before launching into a story within a story, a pattern that continued as she made scones, cooked dinner, fed her horses, and drove.
One anecdote led to another, and she frequently interrupted herself to ask, “Did I tell you about. During the two afternoons I spent interviewing her, I heard about how her great-grandmother, a Norwegian immigrant, met her husband while going door-to-door as a dressmaker in Saint Paul, Minnesota how her grandfather nearly froze to death during a blizzard on an Idaho ranch how her grandmother lost the diamond ring her husband had won in a poker game.
Jane Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, in a family of storytellers-and it shows. Wonderfully written and masterfully plotted, Moo gives us a wickedly funny slice of life.Interviewed by Nicole Rudick Issue 214, Fall 2015 Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried Timothy Monahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. Amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, Moo's campus churns with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean Mrs. In this darkly satirical send-up of academia and the Midwest, we are introduced to Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the study of agriculture.
Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes "an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest" ( The New York Times).
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