Beet

a novel

1st ed.

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Author

Roger Rosenblatt

Publication

2008 - Ecco, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

56,250 words, Guess

Page Count

225 pages

Identifiers

ISBN-100061344273
ISBN-139780061344275
Goodreads1961467
LibraryThing3905444
Library of Congress Control Number2007028229

and 3 more

OCLC Control Number154678323
Open LibraryOL21321259M
Open LibraryOL18512455M

Classifications

DDC813/.6
LCCPS3618.O8336 B44 2008

Description

Why is Professor Peace Porterfield trying to save Beet College? His own wife, Livi, hates the place. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indis-criminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Akim Ben Ladin (ne Arthur Horowitz), a sweet-tempered terrorist hopeful and the college's only Homeland Security major (who lives in an off-campus cave), wants to blow up the school. Faculty members, when not concocting useless, trendy courses, fly at one another's throats. Not to mention that American higher education is already going down the tubes.So why is Porterfield trying to save Beet?Beats us.

Description

Dedicating himself to saving Beet College when its board of trustees squanders its endowment, Professor Peace Porterfield finds his efforts challenged by a radical poet, a terrorist hopeful, and infighting among faculty members.