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Book Review of Straight Man : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

Straight Man : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
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A series of events, most of them beyond his control, rain down upon Hank Devereaux, reluctant chair of the English department of a small Pennsylvania college. His wife is out of town, his father-in-law is in jail, his daughter has left her husband, his professional life is hanging by a thread, and it seems logical to him to begin threatening the waterfowl who live on campus.