Lionel Gift, self-satisfied apostle of free-market economics, and "Chairman X," an unreconstructed '60s radical who heads the horticulture department. Budget cuts have been imposed by the state's yahoo governor the faculty will have to clean their own offices, and food services will be taken over by McDonald's, which has no use for the unionized kitchen staff.
At an unnamed Midwestern state university familiarly known as Moo U., the academic year 1989-90 is not going well.
A comic novel proves an agreeable change of pace for the ordinarily serious-minded Smiley ( A Thousand Acres, 1991, etc.).
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