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Incredible Bodies

Incredible Bodies

by IanMcGuire (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

Thirty-something Morris Gutman is a chronically indecisive temporary lecturer at the University of Coketown. Life hasn't turned out as he planned: he has a demanding wife, an insomniac child and teaches demeaning courses to ungrateful English students. However, he is willing to do whatever it takes to negotiate a permanent departmental job, even if it means finding his way through the minefield that is academia and winning over the alluring and manipulative research fellow Zoe Cable.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 05 May 2016
ISBN 10: 1408882477
ISBN 13: 9781408882474
Book Overview: Alienation and adultery, Pampers and plagiarism, and lashings of sex and satire in a brilliantly funny first novel

Media Reviews
A wincingly entertaining portrayal of academe with its pants down. And a reminder that when things are at their worst they're also at their funniest * Liz Jensen *
Hugely entertaining * The Times *
Covering familiar territory in this sardonic academic novel, McGuire wittily exposes his characters' pretensions and frustrations ... Outwitted and exploited at every step of the way, Gutman and his story are at once very funny and disconcertingly sad * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia, USA. He is a founder and co-director of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. His stories have been published in the Chicago Review, Paris Review and elsewhere. He is the author of Incredible Bodies (2006) and, most recently, the acclaimed The North Water.