The Anthropologist
by Jon Ferguson
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Pub Date 5 Nov 2022 | Archive Date 29 Aug 2024
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Description
To say that Professor Lenny Fuller has an irreverent attitude to dusty, unimaginative, uninspiring academia is an understatement. But he carries on handing out his A+ grades to new tranches of anthropology students, one eye set on his students' horizons and the other on his imminent retirement. Meanwhile the university hierarchy has its eyes set on him. So, when he swaps his staid corduroys for hip hop polyester and starts lecturing in dubious rap, the powers-that-be are ready to swoop.
But by then, Lenny Fuller is too preoccupied with a domestic mystery to worry about his changing employment status. A rather intimate conundrum, possibly involving Julia Roberts, that only gets solved with the help of Juan, the Mexican campus gardener.
Get yourself a copy of the novel that Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author John Coetzee "read with pleasure and amusement", labelling a character in it a "superb creation".
Advance Praise
"I read this novel with pleasure and amusement. The secretary's son is a superb creation... If there is to be a second-coming, rigs is exactly how it ought to occur." John Coetzee, Booker and Nobel Prize winning author.
"Jon Ferguson’s The Anthropologist is splendid anthropology and a beautifully crafted novel. Both disciplines are blended in the creation of Professor Leonard Fuller, the anthropologist of the title. Fuller is reminiscent of the narrator of Joseph Heller’s Something Happened, Bob Slocum. Both regard their lives and the world through an ironic glass, darkly—both are painfully cynical but never less than acutely honest. Ferguson’s novel is full of thought, heart and is, as well, laugh-out-loud funny. Skip an afternoon latte and buy the damn thing…" M C Gardener, American playwright AnotherAmerica.net
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781911249979 |
| PRICE | £7.50 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 152 |
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Featured Reviews
Cassie R, Reviewer
Reminiscent of the brilliant, but nonsense book A Confederacy of Dunces, this book had me in fits if laughter at times, but it is also sprinkled with some very interesting observations on the human condition. I think Professor Fuller is the perfect archetype of the disillusion academic and I loved the way in which the book as a whole explored the idea of societal expectations.
Barbara R, Educator
Having taught in universities, I enjoyed this short book which nicely illustrates the issues facing academic staff today because of cancel culture. Very enjoyable.
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