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Of Related Interest Mar 16, 2008
By Michael Shapiro
Higher Learning, A Novel
My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge
Palimpsest of Consciousness: Authorial Annotations of My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge
Boxed Set: My Wife the Metaphysician and Palimpsest of Consciousness
Higher Learning, A Novel by Marianne Shapiro
From the battlegrounds of World War II to Redfern University's more-than-a-little cracked ivory towers, it's all part of this riotous satire. Everything's fair game for Marianne Shapiro's sharp pen: political correctness, faculty relations, student activism, the cult of celebrity, and contemporary poetry--just for starters.
"A delightful, scathing, and oh-so-true roman à clef. I have been telling everyone I know about this novel. It warmed my heart with its cheerfully unsentimental skewering of some that is best and all that is worst about academe. The author doesn't miss a trick: the academic in-fighting, the departmental hierarchy, the pretentious jargon of multiculturalists, the insidious 'arguments' of postmodernism, the unprincipled careerists, the spoiled and disaffected undergraduates, the harried and terrified grad students, the political overlapping with fundraising, the few, small islands of loyalty and sanity amid faddism, and the near-perfect
inability of anyone to acknowledge aloud the truth of what was happening around them. It's all there." - Michael Gleason, Millsaps College
"Marianne Shapiro's Higher Learning is a delight: it's smart, intriguing and uproariously funny. Nothing in higher education is safe from satire in this book. And in addition to all the clever and erudite humor, it's also a darned good mystery." - Norris Frederick, Queens University of Charlotte
My Wife The Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge by Michael Shapiro
A storied diary that views the world through the eyes of an inimitable woman whose being and essence are determined by her superlative intellect. Inspired by the great Japanese literature of upper-class women writers in the mid-Heian period, eighty-four masterfully woven sections alternate prose, poetry, social commentary, and haiku-like vignettes to tell a fascinating tale of betrayal, revenge, and undying love.
"Moving and enormously edifying." - Paul Friedrich, author of The Meaning of Aphrodite
Palimpsest of Consciousness: Authorial Annotations of My Wife The Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge by Michael Shapiro
A fusion of memoir, family chronicle, and author's commentary on his only work of fiction, Palimpsest of Consciousness provides an unconventional view into the lives and minds of two passionate scholars, and the rarefied and often treacherous universe that they inhabited. Illustrated by photos from the author's own collection, the book recreates the times and multicultural milieux of an exceptional family moving through a singular era of world history. Towering above everything is the story of the couple's steadfast love for each other and for their magical daughter.
visit www.marianneandmichaelshapiro.com
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