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Paul Greatrix, registrar, University of Nottingham, is reading Adrian Jones Pearson’s Cow Country (Cow Eye Press, 2015). “An outstanding higher education satire, Cow Country follows an increasingly sleep-deprived educational administrator as he tries to help Cow Eye Community College (mission: to provide a nurturing and time-tested education grounded in American values and 바카라사이트 proliferation of 바카라사이트 American Way) through its critical accreditation process. Charlie is 바카라사이트 new special projects coordinator and, beyond accreditation, he is tasked with reuniting a starkly divided campus community and organising 바카라사이트 staff Christmas party. Featuring a series of absurd and comic scenarios from calf castration as team-building to maths-based orgies, this is a very entertaining and thoroughly strange campus novel that some thought was written by Thomas Pynchon. Extremely rude and offensive in places, scathing about higher education life and very funny too, it’s a highly recommended read.”
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