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Japanese by Spring.
by REED, Ishmael
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0689120729
- ISBN 13
- 9780689120725
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and appoints Puttbutt as academic dean, the fun really begins—for Puttbutt sets out to stir things up and settle old scores. Turning every contemporary political and social movement on its head—from feminism to nationalism to jingoism—this boistrois and irreverent novel manages to be by turns hilarious and totally serious. "One of the funniest satires of university politics I've ever read. Ishmael Reed is funnier than Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal." —Leslie Marmon Silko "Reed is, as always, an American original; a wiseguy whose wisdom is the real thing," — The Boston Sunday Globe
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10762-1
- Title
- Japanese by Spring.
- Author
- REED, Ishmael
- Format/Binding
- White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing. Review copy
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0689120729
- ISBN 13
- 9780689120725
- Publisher
- Atheneum,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1993.
- Pages
- 225 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Orpheus Books
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Edmonds, Washington
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