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Academic satire by National Book Circle nominee. Savagely funny. DS Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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It is 1974. Nicholas Kraven, lecturer in English Literature at Mosholu College in the Bronx, is adrift on a sea of troubles: his affair with his neighbor's wife threatens to progress from Thursday nights to permanence; his students are a mixture of campus revolutionaries, predatory sexual exhibitionists and an old man intent on proving Merlin was a Jew; an elderly academic specialist in Love, possessor of a devastatingly effective aphrodisiac and a libido that belies her years, has alarming designs on his person; the Kraven demons, a familial curse, are in hot pursuit; and a specter from his past, the one man who can smash his chaotic life to ruins, is expected imminently.
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