Straight Person
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About This Novel
William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (Known as "Hank"), acting chair of the English Department at Western Pennsylvania State University, is about to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. This wisecracking, middle-aged professor finally realizes that he is not suitable for an academic career. Although it took him twenty years to realize this, if not for the accumulation of self-deception over the years, how could this awakening be as hearty as the collapse of a brick wall? It is the cruelest month of April, and this special week is destined to be difficult: his wife is about to go to Philadelphia to interview for a new job; his obsession with multiple women, including the adult daughter of his colleague, is shaking his loyalty to his pragmatic wife Lily; his romantic father, who has been separated for forty years, is about to return to his mother's residence; The youngest daughter is preparing to end her marriage because her husband is unemployed; his nose was smashed by a sharp-tongued colleague with the spiral edge of a loose-leaf notebook, causing nosebleeds; the university is about to cut 20% of its staff funding; he is also well-founded and suspected by a group of harsh scholars, citizens and students of torturing the goose. A crazy mid-life crisis is brewing...
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