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Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)
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Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction) Paperback - 2010

by Jarrell, Randall

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University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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  • Title Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)
  • Author Jarrell, Randall
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Good Condition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2010-04-30
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # K08A-03379
  • ISBN 9780226393759 / 0226393755
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Women college teachers
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire-and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker's razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College-mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself.

"A most literate account of a group of most literate people by a writer of power. . . . A delight of true understanding."-Wallace Stevens

"I'm greatly impressed by the real fun, the incisive satire, the closeness of observation, and in the end by a kind of sympathy and human warmth. It's a remarkable book."-Robert Penn Warren

"Move over Dorothy Parker. Pictures . . . is less a novel than a series of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell's forte."-Mary Welp

"One of the wittiest books of modern times."-New York Times

"[T]he father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them all. Extraordinary to think that 'political correctness' was so deliciously dissected 50 years ago."-Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

"A sustained exhibition of wit in the great tradition. . . . Immensely and very devastatingly shrewd."-Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review

"[A] work of fiction, and a dizzying and brilliant work of social and literary criticism. Not only 'a unique and serious joke-book, ' as Lowell called it, but also a meditation made up of epigrams."-Michael Wood

About the author

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was the author of six volumes of poetry and the recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1961. Pictures from an Institution is his only novel.

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