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Campusland, Scott Johnston

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Campusland

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Scott Johnston

A tumultuous and often hilarious first novel about one year of insanity at the Ivy-like Devon University, a blissful bubble of elite students and the adults at their mercy. Eph Russell is an English professor up for tenure. He may look and sound privileged, but Eph is right out of gun-rack, Bible-thumping rural Alabama. His beloved Devon, though, has become a place of warring tribes, and there are landmines waiting for Eph that he is unequipped to seeDevon University in New England has become a place of warring tribes; cultural rules are changing fast. Eph Russell is an English professor up for tenure. Lulu Harris is an entitled firstyear from Manhattan, determined to become an "It Girl." Red Wheeler is in his seventh year at Devon, and is carefully managing his credits to stay longer. Devon president Milton Strauss spends his day managing students, professors, donors and frat boys. As their paths collide alliances form, education is sacrificed for outrage, and political correctness drags free thought into the lower depths of an entitled underclass. -- adapted from jacket