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Tom Bowman is a university professor teaching literature in New York City in the early 1970s. In the beginning of this novel-as-screenplay he is described as "a middle-aged leftover of the Beat Generation," presenting "a derelict appearance" with a "long grey beard, shoulder length grey hair, dirty wrinkled trousers, tennis sneakers, a torn sweater," looking "half Christ, half Allan Ginsburg." He is a passionate teacher frustrated and angry, impatient with his students and contemptuous of his dull and academically regimented colleagues and their boring scholarship and interminable faculty meetings and idiotic committees. When a classroom experiment while teaching "The Rape of the Lock" leads a student to lodge a complaint against him, in the ensuing scandal Bowman abruptly quits his tenured position, leaves his wife, and embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery and spiritual renewal. Lacking any apparent marketable skills, as an employment agency coldly informs him, he starts a love affair with one of his former students, a young actress who is playing Celimene in a production of Moliere's "The Misanthrope" that a small, idealistic, multiracial acting company is struggling to mount

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Author

Tom Dulack

Publisher

North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781492758976

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14