The Resource Dear committee members, Julie Schumacher
Dear committee members, Julie Schumacher
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- Summary
- Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small, undistinguished Midwest liberal arts college. His department is facing draconian cuts. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life. In short, his is a tale of woe, told here in a series of letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon to produce, each of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon and low spirits
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 249 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781410476241
- Label
- Dear committee members
- Title
- Dear committee members
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie Schumacher
- Subject
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- trueCollege teachers
- trueDiscontent in men
- Employment references -- Fiction
- trueEpistolary novels
- trueDivorced men
- trueCreative writing teachers
- trueLetters
- Letters -- Fiction
- trueAcademic rivalry
- trueSatirical fiction
- Large type books
- trueTeacher-student relationships
- Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- truePassive-aggressive personality
- trueOffice politics
- trueAuthors
- trueEmployment references
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small, undistinguished Midwest liberal arts college. His department is facing draconian cuts. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life. In short, his is a tale of woe, told here in a series of letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon to produce, each of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon and low spirits
- Summary
- Enduring budget cuts and the favoritism of other departments at his small liberal arts college, literature professor Jason Fitger despairs of his writing ambitions and imposed role in a star pupil's would-be opus while writing wryly comic, passive-aggressive letters to students and colleagues
- Award
- Thurber Prize for American Humor, 2015.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10322154
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Dear committee members
- Series volume
- 0001
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Dear committee members, Julie Schumacher
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 249 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410476241
- Isbn Type
- (large print : hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014040126
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)892804146
- Label
- Dear committee members, Julie Schumacher
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 249 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410476241
- Isbn Type
- (large print : hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014040126
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)892804146
Subject
- trueAcademic rivalry
- trueAuthors
- trueCollege teachers
- Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Fiction
- trueCreative writing teachers
- trueDiscontent in men
- trueDivorced men
- trueEmployment references
- Employment references -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- trueEpistolary novels
- Large type books
- trueLetters
- Letters -- Fiction
- trueOffice politics
- truePassive-aggressive personality
- trueSatirical fiction
- trueTeacher-student relationships
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