MooBrilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university. Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University is in a state of disarray In this witty and biting comedy of manners, Jane Smiley turns her wryly perceptive eye towards a community where men and women, the innocent and the cynical, thinkers and careerists, live and work together in complete disharmony. Satire on a grand scale, a microscopic examination of contemporary

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and as the gap between prosperity and poverty widens Victorian England can no longer afford to be complacent

This is the ultimate state-of-the-nation guide to make us think beyond the fourletteracronyms that we have turned our national debate into

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political and military representatives championing the cause of Kashmir

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is grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying brutality of the French Revolution