University Shambles
A novel by Christopher James Rhodes

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The Cut-throat World of Brave New Academia

"very funny and true to life" "deliciously vicious"

Charles Rae is a young, rabidly ambitious particle physicist who is offered a professorship at the newly fledged Evergreen Epstein University (EEU), making him the youngest professor of physics in the world.

His elation chills as he rapidly finds himself drawn into a twilight-zone scenario that appears to have been deliberately engineered for his destruction.

In University Shambles, Chris Rhodes has created a bitingly accurate observational satire which targets the politics of academia, the transformation of the university system and - inescapably - the foolish vanity of academics. The adept combination of character, sharp satire and comedic humour make good reading and he has given us a new and much-needed phase in the evolution of the campus novel, taking-on the hypocrisies and spin of ‘education, education, education’.

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Published by Melrose Books
ISBN: 978 1 906561 39 0
Hardback with dust jacket 234mm x 156mm, 216 pages

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