![]() ![]() Of course, the flip side to all that intimacy is that what goes on in the academic novel can be treacherous too, if you consider people trying to undermine each other's bid for tenure a kind of treachery (and then, of course, there's Donna Tartt's The Secret History, which actually veers into murder). Like an Agatha Christie novel, you know right away who the characters are and where the drama will play out. ![]() David Lodge, Richard Russo, Donna Tartt, Chad Harbach - they've all created campuses with an intimate, sometimes cozy feeling that offers an escape from a world that can seem terribly open-gated and impersonal. How?Īs soon as I hear that a novel is set in a college or a university, I'm in. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title My Education Author Susan Choi ![]()
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