Beet

Roger Rosenblatt

ISBN 10: 0061344273 / ISBN 13: 9780061344275

Published by Ecco, 2008

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Pap. Minor shelf wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beet
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061344273
• ISBN 13: 9780061344275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1St Edition.
• Condition: Used-Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Roger Rosenblatt’s dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary,or our most audacious visionary comic?”—Joyce Carol Oates

Beet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indiscriminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Sweet-tempered terrorist hopeful Akim Ben Ladin (né Arthur Horowitz) sits in his off-campus cave and dreams about blowing Beet up. Faculty members are too busy concocting useless, trendy courses to do anything about it. Not to mention that American higher education is going down the tubes, one less lesser school isn’t going to matter. So why is Professor Peace Porterfield trying to save Beet? Beats us.

“Rosenblatt [applies] his sharp wit to elite education.”—Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Roger Rosenblatt  is the author of six off-Broadway plays and eighteen books, including Lapham Rising, Making Toast, Kayak Morning and The Boy Detective. He is the recipient of the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.