Description
A sharp, exuberant satire of American college life, this early novel follows the students, administrators, and assorted eccentrics trapped inside a vast, impersonal university known as the Big U. As campus bureaucracy, corporate ambition, and youthful rebellion collide, ordinary academic life spirals into increasingly absurd territory. Blending dark humor, social commentary, and inventive speculative touches, the book offers a lively portrait of institutional chaos and the culture that sustains it. It also provides a revealing glimpse of the bold, irreverent imagination that would define the author’s later work.
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paperback
Perennial
Published Jan 1, 2001
308 pages
ISBN: 9780380816033
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for The Big U by Neal Stephenson.