ISBN: 0-88739-335-7
254 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 9/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Death of a Prof
Jake Fuchs
Maren Matthews, nursery school teacher and wife of an eccentric Edith Wharton scholar, finds the body of a prestigious English professor hacked to death on her kitchen floor. Hyenas and other wild beasts; neurotic, demanding nursery school parents; bogus cures for impotence; the values and quirky goings on of affluent, academic Berkeley culture-all swirl together into a gently satirical, murderous stew.
Review: "An amazing story.... Very few mystery writers alive-or any other kinds of writers-combine the awful dread and the gleeful humor, the genuine bitterness and the smiling irony, like Jake Fuchs."
-Eric Miles Williamson, author of East Bay Grease
"Pre-school meets grad school in Jake Fuchs's latest novel.... This sequel to Death of a Dad returns to the Berserkleyite world of Yuppie values and Volvos, neurotic nursery school parents and obnoxious university academics. Combining the deft satiric comedy of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim or David Lodge's Small World with the whodunit deductive suspense of the murder mystery genre makes for a delightfully readable, funny and culturally acute novel. Like its title murder, Death of a Prof hacks away at pretension."
-William J. Palmer, Professor of English,
Purdue University; author of the "Mr. Dickens" Mystery Series
"With plenty of spoiled kiddy-and-parent antics...and mildly outrageous Berkeley settings... [An] engaging follow-up to Death of a Dad."
-Library Journal
"Postgraduate distinction-in artistry as well as plot line... a truly superior effort."
-The Oakland Tribune
Praise for Jake Fuchs:
"Audaciously enjoyable... Death of a Dad is downright sardonic, a scandalously unusual note for the East Bay, where sincerity is the verbal currency of choice."
-San Francisco Chronicle
Bio: JAKE FUCHS is Chair of the English Department at California State University, Hayward. He lives with his wife in Berkeley, California.
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