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Pictures from an Institution

Randall Jarrell

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#3044 of 8,085 books · #1458 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1955).

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire—and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker's razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College—mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
ISBN-13
9780380496501
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Academic satireIntellectual pretensionCampus life

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