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Wednesday, Jan 07
Any Book France Can Read, We Can Read Later
Anyway, we received the new Grove/Atlantic catalog earlier this week, and there it was: An Expensive Education. In the full recognition that this is a glib oversimplification of an already simplified plot outline, the promotional copy suggests a cross between The Rules of Attraction and A Long Way Gone: "Professor Susan Lowell has it made. A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter. David Ayan is her singular Somali-born student. He is trying to become a member of one of Harvard's elite finals clubs. He is trying to understand Jane, his girlfriend from a privileged background. He is trying, sometimes, just to get by in a foreign place. Michael Teak is a twenty-five-year-old recent Harvard grad working as an American intelligence operative who meets Hatashil in David's village minutes before the massacre that will upend all their lives." A story like that, if McDonell's writing takes it to its fullest potential, could possibly be the "definitive" statement on college life I Am Charlotte Simmons wanted to be; at the very least, it sounds like something we'd be interested in reading when it comes out this summer. The title's a little bland, perhaps, but it's still a damn sight better than War at Harvard. So we're one up on the French there, at least. (UPDATE: We've since been informed that An Expensive Education and The War at Harvard are, in fact, not the same text at all. We regret our error.) Email This Post |
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