The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon , it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer. **
Review
"Satire is Stephenson's major."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"A satiric, apocalyptic look at life . . . one is reminded of "Catch 22 . . . the author has beguiled us with a series of inventive episodes and stories, told in a witty, unusually clear and continuously fresh style. This is a most impressive debut."--"Publisher's Weekly"An entertaining and sometimes murderous satire on campus life."--"New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde , Anathem , The System of the World , The Confusion , Quicksilver , Cryptonomicon , The Diamond Age , Snow Crash , and Zodiac , and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Description:
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon , it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer. **
Review
"Satire is Stephenson's major."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"A satiric, apocalyptic look at life . . . one is reminded of "Catch 22 . . . the author has beguiled us with a series of inventive episodes and stories, told in a witty, unusually clear and continuously fresh style. This is a most impressive debut."--"Publisher's Weekly"An entertaining and sometimes murderous satire on campus life."--"New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde , Anathem , The System of the World , The Confusion , Quicksilver , Cryptonomicon , The Diamond Age , Snow Crash , and Zodiac , and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.