The dean's December
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 05 min.)) : digital.
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access - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2015.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Sean Runnette. |
Summary, etc.: | Albert Corde is a professor of journalism and dean of students at a Chicago university. He and his wife, Minna, travel to Bucharest, Romania, where Minna's mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semiconscious in the local state hospital. As Corde tries to adapt to life in his mother-in-law's small apartment and cope with her relations and friends, news filters through to him of problems he left behind in Chicago: one of his students has been murdered, and a series of articles he is writing offends powerful and influential Chicagoans he had thought of as friends. Gradually it becomes clear that Corde's trip abroad is more than a brief interlude in a calm and orderly life, and that nothing will ever be the same again. Witty and erudite, The Dean's December will be a delight to fans of Saul Bellow. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Bucharest (Romania) Fiction Chicago (Ill.) Fiction |