{"product_id":"pictures-from-an-institution-9780226393759","title":"Pictures from an Institution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A most literate account of a group of most literate people by a writer of power.... A delight of true understanding.\" - Wallace Stevens \"I'm greatly impressed by the real fun, the incisive satire, the closeness of observation, and in the end by a kind of sympathy and human warmth. It's a remarkable book.\" - Robert Penn Warren \"Move over Dorothy Parker. Pictures... is less a novel than a series of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell's forte.\" - Mary Welp \"One of the wittiest books of modern times.\" - New York Times \"The father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them all. Extraordinary to think that 'political correctness' was so deliciously dissected fifty years ago.\" - Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph \"A sustained exhibition of wit in the great tradition.... Immensely and very devastatingly shrewd.\" - Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review \"This is a searching novel about a mean lady novelist writing a mean novel about a college where she is spending a year teaching creative writing. It portrays a savage, lethal-tongued bluestocking, pitilessly intent on pinning down her colleagues as specimens in her already gruesome collection.... Mr. Jarrell is on the side of the angels. His is a divine meanness, and he exposes his female writing devil punitively, matching her stream of poisonous wisecracks with a series of coruscating cracks of his own worthy of Dorothy Parker at her most hilarious and deadly.\" - Francis Steegmuller, New York Times Book Review\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400010965335,"sku":"9780226393759","price":15.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226393759.jpg?v=1730469434","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pictures-from-an-institution-9780226393759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}