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Normal School - Softcover

White, Lowell Mick

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Synopsis

When rural and seemingly-placid Southeast Kansas State University is rocked by death of an English professor, Dr. Tom Holt begins asking questions--questions that uncover a loose conspiracy of embezzlement, sexual harassment, poor pedagogy, and murder. Normal School is an academic noir filled with the struggles and absurdities and horrors of American contemporary higher education--a world where what you learn (or don't learn) is a matter of life and death....

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About the Author

Lowell Mick White is the author of six books: novels Normal School and Burnt House and That Demon Life and Professed, and story collections Long Time Ago Good and The Messes We Make of Our Lives. His work has been published in many literary journals, including Callaloo, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Short Story. A winner of the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, awarded by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, White lived in Austin, Texas, for 25 years, at various times making his living working as a cab driver, as a shade tree salesman, and as an Internal Revenue Service bureaucrat. He is Editor of Alamo Bay Press, and has been the National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence at the federal prison in Bryan, Texas. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, White is an Instructional Associate Professor at Texas A&M University.

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