McDonell's third novel takes readers into Harvard through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls. "An Expensive Education" is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.
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McDonell's third novel takes readers into Harvard through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls. "An Expensive Education" is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket, A novel of academia and realpolitik, from Harvard to Africa, with corruption, love, betrayal, and sudden death. Former owner name on endpaper, otherwise book is in Fine condition. Pristine, in black half cloth with red titles, ivory cloth over boards; tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Interior also as new. 294 pages. 8.6 x 5.75 inches. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2009.
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Brought it because of a positive NYTimes review. CHILDISH nonsense. A 20-something imagines the world of east Africa, sex and Harvard. The author needs to grow up a bit before trying his hand at fiction again. Gag.