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Finally a novel that puts the «pissed» back into «epistolary.»Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The third report of the Committee of the society for the improvement of prison discipline and for the reformation of juvenile offenders : 1821 : with an appendix».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Minutes of evidence taken before a select committee : appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the police of the Metropolis : with notes, observations, and a preface / by a Magistrate of the County of Middlesex».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same, relative to the mode of preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes / printed by order of the Society».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The substance of the speech delivered in the Committee of finance, January 29th, 1807 : with the necessary tables, and an appendix, containing the plans of Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Johnstone / by the Right Hon. Lord Henry Petty».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The committee : a comedy : destinguishing also the Variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane / as written by the Hon. Sir R. Howard ; regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins».