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Leland Edwards, a piano-playing fisherman and English professor, has become dean of Rookery State College in Minnesota. With this title comes the daunting task of saving his beloved campus from diminished enrollment, hockey thuggery, and its ignoble associations with Paul Bunyan. So when the most famous poet in America agrees to come to Rookery, Leland hopes that his reading will put Rookery State on the literary map.
But when he arrives, the poet is more and less than what Leland expected--and their relationship leads Leland on a wild ride that will compel him to harbor a fugitive, stand up to his domineering mother, and finally make peace with his brief attempt at love and the tragedy that ensued. . . .
But when he arrives, the poet is more and less than what Leland expected--and their relationship leads Leland on a wild ride that will compel him to harbor a fugitive, stand up to his domineering mother, and finally make peace with his brief attempt at love and the tragedy that ensued. . . .
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From the Author:
How I came to write "The Dean's List"
When I finished writing 'Rookery Blues' I thought I had exhausted the topic of academe, but my editor's off-hanad remark brought me back to Rookery State for at least one more book. She said, one day on the phone, "You know, Leland is the most Hasslerlike character in the book" which I took to mean he was most like my characters. But then, as I began to concentrate on Leland Edwards and write about him, I found that he was also very much like Hassler himself. His voice, for exammple, is so close to my own that it seemed natural to write it in the first person.
When I finished writing 'Rookery Blues' I thought I had exhausted the topic of academe, but my editor's off-hanad remark brought me back to Rookery State for at least one more book. She said, one day on the phone, "You know, Leland is the most Hasslerlike character in the book" which I took to mean he was most like my characters. But then, as I began to concentrate on Leland Edwards and write about him, I found that he was also very much like Hassler himself. His voice, for exammple, is so close to my own that it seemed natural to write it in the first person.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0708958877
- ISBN 13 9780708958872
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages592
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