An edition of Straight Man: A Novel (1997)

Straight man

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An edition of Straight Man: A Novel (1997)

Straight man

1st ed.
  • 4.0 (6 ratings) ·
  • 26 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University.

Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a goose, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park.

Publish Date
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Pages
391

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Straight Man
Straight Man
August 5, 2003, Random House Audio
Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition
Cover of: Straight Man
Straight Man
August 5, 2003, Random House Audio
Audio cassette in English - Unabridged edition
Cover of: Straight Man
Straight Man: A Novel
June 9, 1998, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Straight man
Straight man
1998, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
in English - 1st Vintage contemporaries ed., June 1998.
Cover of: Straight man
Straight man
1998, Vintage
in English
Cover of: The Straight Man
The Straight Man: A novel
June 17, 1997, Random House Audio
Audio cassette in English
Cover of: Straight man
Straight man
1997, Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.U812 S77 1997, PS3568.U812S77 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 391 p. ;
Number of pages
391

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1008601M
ISBN 10
0679432469
LCCN
96048578
OCLC/WorldCat
35927199
Library Thing
5432184
Goodreads
838384

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When my nose finally stops bleeding and I've disposed of the bloody paper towels, Teddy Barnes insists on driving me home in his ancient Honda Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in.
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