Bibliograph

Slipsliding by the Bay, a spoof of San Francisco in the seventies, Barbara McDonald

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Slipsliding by the Bay, a spoof of San Francisco in the seventies, Barbara McDonald

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Slipsliding by the Bay

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Barbara McDonald

Sub title

a spoof of San Francisco in the seventies

Summary

Perched on the edge of San Francisco, Lakeside College is experiencing an identity crisis. John Gudewill is recruited as president to save the college from possible closure-but he is flummoxed at every turn. The faculty, led by secretive English professor Eliot Blanc, is determined to unionize. The alumni want Lakeside to return to its former status as a women-only college. Meanwhile, Sister Magdalena, the college's infamous artist, is waging war against corporate America through her art, and the students are engaging in their own warfare through sit-ins and protests. With the college besieged on all sides, what is its new president to do? A hilarious spoof of academic intrigue, Slipsliding by the Bay mirrors the societal turmoil and follies of the seventies

Target audience

adult

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