Description
| Product ID: | 9781847517432 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Principals |
| Authors: | Author: Bill James |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating It''s all-out war in this witty satire on academic life. Two universities in the same city each aim to destroy the other and take over one another''s buildings, students and, above all, bank balance. It''s Dr Lawford Chute of the revered Sedge University versus Dr Victor Tane of Charter Mill: who will win these ferocious academic fights? England, 1987. It''s all-out war. Two universities in the same city each aim to destroy the other and take over one another''s buildings, students and - above all - bank balance. At a time of austerity in public life and huge government cuts, the situation has become desperate and the respective university principals are prepared to fight very dirty indeed. Dr Lawford Chute of the revered Sedge University wants to expand, expand, expand, while the government is telling him to cut, cut, cut. But Dr Victor Tane of Charter Mill employs more covert methods to ensure his institution comes out on top. Who will win these ferocious academic fights and be the model for the statue in the modern-day university grounds: the ultimate proof of posterity for which both principals are battling? |
| Imprint Name: | Severn House |
| Publisher Name: | Canongate Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-06-30 |
