The English Experience: A Novel (The Dear Committee Trilogy)

ISBN: 038555012X

Author: Schumacher, Julie

Condition: New

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne Universitys annual Experience: Abroad to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishapWise and hilarious and heartbreaking.-Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire FallsJason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but hes the only professor available to chaperone Payne Universitys annual Experience: Abroad (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between the words) occurring during the three weeks of winter term. Among his charges are a claustrophobe with a juvenile detention record, a student who erroneously believes he is headed for the Caribbean, a pair of unreconciled lovers, a set of undifferentiated twins, and one young woman who has never been away from her cat before.Through a sea of troubles-personal, institutional, and international-the gimlet-eyed, acid-tongued Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes surprising places in which it is found.