Venous hum suzette mayr6/10/2023 ![]() 'The momentum of this novel, which I read in two delightful days, comes from the pile-on of absurd tragedies - how could things get any worse? Suzette Mayr taking care to immediately answer the question. Like an unholy collision of Stoner, The Haunting of Hill House, Charlie Brown, and Alice in Wonderland, this audacious new novel by the Giller Prize - longlisted Suzette Mayr is a satire that takes the hallowed halls of the campus novel in fantastical - and unsettling - directions. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral, her backstabbing fellow professors, a cutthroat new dean - and the fact that the sentient and malevolent Crawley Hall has decided it wants them all out, and the hall and its hellish hares will stop at nothing to get rid of them. ![]() ![]() She's a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist's repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. Her dissertation on pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job's finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. ![]() Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. ![]()
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