Higher Learning, A Novel - Softcover

Shapiro, Marianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419607391 ISBN 13: 9781419607394

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

a campus novel

About this title

About the Author:

Marianne Shapiro (née Goldner) was born on April 14, 1940, in Budapest (Hungary), and immigrated to the United States at the age of 3. She attended public schools in Manhattan, including the High School of Music and Art, and graduated from Barnard College. She was a Fulbright student at the Universities of Rome and Florence and received graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia.

Besides her extensive published scholarship in medieval, Renaissance, and comparative literature, Marianne Shapiro was an accomplished classical pianist and linguist (French, Italian, Latin, Old Provençal, German, Russian) and had a detailed knowledge of art history, particularly the European Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Marianne Shapiro died on June 3, 2003, in Machester Center, Vermont.

Review:

"Marianne Shapiro's Higher Learning is a delight: it's smart, intriguing and at times uproariously funny. Nothing in higher education is safe from satire in this book. And in addition to all the clever and erudite humor, it's also a darned good mystery." --Norris Frederick, Queens University of Charlotte

"...a highly original view of academic life, more brilliantly satirical than, say, the novels of David Lodge. Every line is barbed with wit - it's simply bloody funny!" -- G. J. Barker-Benfield, State University of New York at Albany

"...mystery, intrigue, and satire, served with wit and charm." -- Raimo Anttila, UCLA

"A delightful, scathing, and oh-so-true roman à clef. I have been telling everyone I know about this novel. It warmed my heart with its cheerfully unsentimental skewering of some that is best and all that is worst about academe. The author doesn't miss a trick..." -- Michael Gleason, Millsaps College

About this edition

• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1419607391
• ISBN 13: 9781419607394
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292