An Academic Question

Pym, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0525244417 / ISBN 13: 9780525244417

Published by Dutton, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Academic Question
• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525244417
• ISBN 13: 9780525244417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tedium in reading to the elderly and becoming a party to her husband's purloining of an important manuscript

Reviews

Pym's reputation will not be enhanced by the publication of this edited first draft of a novel from her "silent years." Set in a provincial university, the story is narrated by Caro Grimstone, the dissatisfied wife of Alan, a rising anthropologist. Caro unwittingly becomes the means by which Alan dishonestly obtains a manuscript that will both advance his reputation and refute the findings of a respected, elderly colleague. Around this academic misdemeanor, the Grimstones and a cast of unrealized academic eccentrics revolve until the whole is resolved in a literal burst of fireworks. Absent is Pym's genius for creating characters whose concerns, no matter how trivial, engage the reader. Her fans, however, will probably demand the book. Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
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