Description
Nelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power--he can force his will onto others with a touch of his finger. And so he obtains an extension on the lease of his university-owned townhouse and picks up two sections of freshman composition, saving his career from utter ruin. But soon these victories seem inconsequential, and Nelson's finger burns for even greater glory. Now the Midas of academia wonders if he can attain what every struggling assistant professor and visiting lecturer covets--tenure. The Lecturer's Tale is a pitch-perfect blend of satire and horror.
Author: James Ma Hynes
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 02/09/2002
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780312287719
ISBN10: 0312287712
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Horror | General
About the Author
James Hynes is the author of The Wild Colonial Boy and Publish and Perish, a New York Times Notable Book. His television criticism has appeared in Mother Jones and the Utne Reader. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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