years universities have been restive sounding boards for those who talk
of revolution, of a new system, of freedom for every man. This chilling
tale begins with a university, and a student riot-only this time the
riot becomes a revolution and produces a new epoch in the American way
of life.
Robert
Kiley, a member of the faculty, seems to endorse the change as a giant
step forward in the educational process. After all, his name appears on
the plan that effected it. But his efforts at reform have brought
him near death, saved only by a colleague's experimental research in
cryogenics.
Awakening
years in the future, Kiley finds that he is still on the university
campus where, through some strange metamorphosis, he has become the
spiritual leader of the people-against his every wish. He can't
understand where he fits, in a new era when everyone speaks in distorted
versions of today's ghetto jargon, everyone (literate or not) has a
PhD, and the university has become a miniature hell, isolated from the
new paradise of America. But the money still comes from Washington and
as the new ""leader,"" Kiley goes to fetch it, a journey across America
which reveals just how alien he-or his world-has become.
Often hilarious, this devastating first novel shows how easily the best intentions can
produce a nightmare.
By:
Richard E. Peck Imprint: Random House USA Inc Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 232g ISBN:9780385512404 ISBN 10: 0385512406 Pages: 192 Publication Date:07 March 1995 Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
