"Alice in Academe" and Other Stories

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In "Alice in Academe" and Other Stories, the author strives to restore common sense to the upper echelons of academe. In the novella of the title, Wessling uses fantasy to expose reality. Lewis Carroll s Alice, now a young woman, reappears (don t ask how) as a doctoral student in English at a major American university and experiences a new kind of wonderland with many echoes of the first Wonderland. The foibles of academe prove frustrating but also delicious. Wessling s muse is never meanspirited. There are no villains and few heroes, but this writer, like Chekhov, "could not resist the clowns," who are in these pages, not to be despised, but to be enjoyed. If you are a member of the university scene--administrator, faculty, or student--this book will strike home again and again. But this is not a book only for the in-crowd. Whoever you are, whatever your background, just bring to these stories your sense of absurdity. It will serve you well. "Alice in Academe" and Other Stories is greatly enhanced by the superb illustrations of Holly Schapker, and the author shall be eternally grateful.