All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character-he is a born anarchist- and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. (In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak.
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