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A spontaneous person

14.99 €
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A spontaneous person
14.99 €
A hilarious and honest, compassionate and witty story the length of one impossible week in the life of Hank Devereux. Reluctantly and against his own nature, William Henry Devereux, Jr. who prefers to be called Hank quaintly, runs the English department at a run-down college somewhere in the rust belt of Pennsylvania. Hank himself is by nature an observer and an anarchist, but the department is rapidly falling apart even without his efforts. Over the course of a week, Hank is faced with a host of trials and even disasters. An enraged colleague will break his nose, a graduate student will try to seduce him, local TV will accuse him of executing a goose, his own father will arrive wanting to reconcile for good, and certain bodily functions will suddenly go on strike. A sad and funny novel about academic misfits, freedom-not-freedom, and just plain good people.
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