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...could never transcend what Menu Man and I have together. I wouldn't want to mar the purity and innocence of our correspondence by subjecting it to the stain of superficiality. Besides, the enigma just adds to the sex appeal. It's not just the virile way He pronounces, "Moo Goo Gai Pan" that makes my stomach do flip-flops, it's the fact that I don't know what the man on the other end of the line looks like. I know now how potent is the attaction of the unknown...
...Moo (Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is something of a runaway hog itself, a 10,000-acre comic novel set in what might almost be called Animal Farm State...
...Moo U. is a huge Midwestern agricultural college of 37,000 students, where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," conduct research on plant pathology and soils science and read papers on "The Use of Strain-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies to Model the Field Spread of Soybean Mosaic Virus...
...jaunty and straightforward as its title, Moo allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym. She writes course-catalog entries, student-fiction papers and newspaper articles (even in Spanish). She masters billionaire talk, bovine-cloning monologues and the shrewd counsel of black elder sisters. In its easy virtuosity and wicked glee, Moo is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work. And if Moo finally has more of a target than a point, it never allows us to forget that, in a certain context...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley's campus satire (Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is centered on Moo U, a huge Midwestern agricultural college where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," an inventor moos after suffering a "brain attack" and secretaries sell Amway products by telephone. "As jaunty and straightforward as its title, 'Moo' allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym," saysTIME critic Pico Iyer. "It is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work...