University Shambles
A novel by Christopher James Rhodes
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Published by Melrose Books
ISBN: 978 1 906561 39 0
Hardback with dust jacket
234mm x 156mm,
216 pages
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The Cut-throat World of Brave New Academia
"very funny and true to life" "deliciously vicious" "very David Lodge"
Blair’s educational reforms of the 1990’s. Where glittering new universities arise from the ashes of mediocre former polytechnics; and where egos don’t just run departments – they run rampant.
Enter Charles Rae, a young, rabidly ambitious particle physicist who is offered a professorship at the newly fledged Evergreen Epstein University (EEU), making him the youngest professor of physics in the world.
His elation chills as he rapidly finds himself drawn into a twilight-zone scenario that appears to have been deliberately engineered for his destruction.
In University Shambles, Chris Rhodes has created a bitingly accurate observational satire which targets the politics of academia, the degradation of the university system in the name of inclusiveness and - inescapably - the foolish vanity of academics. The adept combination of character, sharp satire and comedic humour make good reading and he has given us a new and much-needed phase in the evolution of the campus novel, taking-on the hypocrisies and spin of ‘education, education, education’.
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Updated 16 August, 2009