Mustang Sally
A tenured English professor blunders through campus orthodoxy and a Nevada brothel, in that order.
Edward Allen’s tenured English professor narrates his own decline through a semester of campus orthodoxy, a gambling habit and a stay at a legal Nevada brothel, all in a voice of unreliable self-justification. Published in 1992, it arrived just as the phrase political correctness was entering general use, and it is more interested in its hero’s cowardice than in scoring points.
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Thomas Mallon
Its English-professor hero, a schlubby American Lucky Jim, runs afoul of policed language, smug groupthink, and what was only starting to be called political correctness.
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