When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange.
De Campus Trilogie Reeks
Deze serie onderzoekt op humoristische wijze culturele botsingen en de academische wereld via het verhaal van twee professoren die van lesplaats wisselen. We volgen hun cultuurshocks en onverwachte avonturen in vreemde landen, wat leidt tot tal van absurde en geestige situaties. De vertelling raakt thema's aan als studentenonrust en uiteenlopende universitaire omgevingen, maar biedt vooral een slimme en vermakelijke kijk op menselijke lotsbestemmingen en aanpassingsvermogen. Het is een werk dat vermaakt, ongeacht uw bekendheid met de academische wereld.
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Small World
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Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.
"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York Times Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds--and about themselves.
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