| Professed: A Novel of Higher Education Contributor(s): White, Lowell Mick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1943306036 ISBN-13: 9781943306039 Publisher: Buffalo Times Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2016916155 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6" W x 9" (0.60 lbs) 182 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and many weirdnesses American higher education--favor-dodging, ex-girlfriend avoiding, grade-dreading, plagiarist-busting, dissertation-reading, office-mate annoying, litter-box spilling, book-stealing, unprofessional forbidden lusting, unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling, lost cat-chasing, wrist-breaking, inopportune body-betraying, boring boyfriend-dumping planning, dead professor missing, committee-meeting texting, student misfiling, classroom failing, hidden Confederate-history uncovering, book-writing, student advising, professional dysphoria-feeling, drunk-tank loitering, book discussion-leading, unwise nasal behaving, paper researching, non-academic schooling, sink fouling, New Years' kissing, celebratory pool-playing, stranger-disemboweling, paper-writing attempting, paper-writing failing, drinking-game playing, incompletetaking...yet, as the characters fight to fit into a rapidly-changing institution, medicating themselves as best they can with sex, drugs, and literature, learning actually happens----Somehow. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Lowell Mick: - Lowell Mick White is the author of three books: That Demon Life and Professed, novels, and Long Time Ago Good, a story collection. 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 received his PhD from Texas A&M University. He was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. |