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Straight man

Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: New York : Random House, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A comedy on university downsizing. To make sure the English department's budget is not cut, William Devereaux, its chairman, goes on TV threatening to kill a goose a day if that happens. Unfortunately a goose is beheaded soon after and Devereaux finds himself in hot water. The setting is Pennsylvania. By the author of Nobody's Fool.
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Genre/Form: College stories.
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Russo
ISBN: 0679432469 9780679432463
OCLC Number: 35927199
Description: xvii, 391 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Richard Russo.
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Abstract:

A comedy on university downsizing. To make sure the English department's budget is not cut, William Devereaux, its chairman, goes on TV threatening to kill a goose a day if that happens. Unfortunately a goose is beheaded soon after and Devereaux finds himself in hot water. The setting is Pennsylvania. By the author of Nobody's Fool.

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