The dean's list

Resource Information

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Label

The dean's list

Statement of responsibility

Jon Hassler

Creator

• Hassler, Jon

Subject

• Minnesota -- Fiction
• Universities and colleges -- Minnesota -- Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Campus fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Campus fiction
• Humorous fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Leland Edwards, a piano-playing fisherman and English professor, has become Dean of Rookery State College. And since the president of the college has been on automatic pilot for the last thirty years, it falls to Leland to save his beloved campus from diminished enrollment, hockey thuggery, and its ignoble associations with Paul Bunyan. Then his old pal from the Icejam Quintet, Peggy Benoit, drops a fund-raising plum in his lap. The most famous poet in America, Richard Falcon, has agreed to come to Rookery. Leland envisions thousands coming from all over the Midwest to hear Falcon's reading - an event that will put Rookery State on the literary map. But when he arrives, the poet is both more and less than what Leland expected. Their relationship leads Leland back to memories of the father he lost when he was fourteen - and on a wild ride that will compel him to harbor a fugitive, stand up to his domineering mother, and finally make peace with his brief attempt at love and the tragedy that ensued

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3558.A726

LC item number

D39 1997

Literary form

fiction