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Great Books - April
The Great American Novel - book cover

The Great American Novel

by Philip Roth
April 21, 2010

One of Philip Roth’ s least-known works, The Great American Novel is the story of the Ruppert Mundys, a baseball team in the fictional Patriot League. When the Mundys lease their stadium to the U.S. Department of War in 1943, they are forced to play all their games on the road that year. Written in language that The Atlantic called “electric prose,”The Great American Novel is a wonderful satire of America’ s favorite pastime. Philip Roth has observed that no book that he authored was as fun to write as this one.

Menu

Appetizer: Mini stadium burgers and dogs
Soup/Salad: Big League beer and cheese soup
Entree: Cracker Jack chicken breast with rice and fresh vegetable
Dessert: Ball Park peanut butter torte

Presenter

Dr. R. David Kent is the chairman of Milwaukee School of Engineering’s General Studies Department, where he teaches a variety of composition, professional writing, humanities and communication courses. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Marquette University and earned his doctorate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kent has international teaching and administrative experience, and has worked as a business writing consultant and editor. He is a member of the National Councilof Teachers of English and the Modern Language Association. Dr. Kent has presented papers at several academic conferences and has both academic and nonacademic publications to his credit. He has previously led Great Books discussions of The Remains of the Day, The Brothers Karamazov, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Plague, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Bel Canto,  Everything that Rises Must Converge, A Death inthe Family, I, Claudius, All Over but the Shoutin’, and The Seven Story Mountain.

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