Cow country
by Adrian Jones Pearson · first published 2015
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"When a down-on-his-luck educational administrator arrives into the makeshift bus shelter of Cow Eye Junction, he finds a drought-stricken town and its community college on the precipice of institutional ruin. Struggling to navigate this strange world of bloated calf scrota, orgiastic math instruction, and onrushing regional accreditors, Charlie must devise a plan to lead Cow Eye Community College through the perils of continuous improvement to the triumphant culmination of world history. Iconoclastic, wry, and ambitiously constructed, Cow Country is Adrian Jones Pearson's most American work y
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Try reading the first few pages: http://www.amazon.com/Cow-Country-Adrian-Jones-Pearson-ebook... This reads nothing like Pynchon. I agree that the author of the article managed to convey a different impression quite successfully.
on “Did Thomas Pynchon Publish a Novel Under the Pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson?” ↗…wrote several short stories in highschool in the first person. See Voice of the Hamster (http://genius.com/Thomas-pynchon-voice-of-the-hamster-annota...). I find the similarities between this story and Cow Country interesting (as it takes place at Hamster High.) Dr. Felch would fit right in. In addition, Pynchon's style of narration employs so much free indirect speech that it often begs to become first person.…
on “Did Thomas Pynchon Publish a Novel Under the Pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson?” ↗Suppose one of those five (or others with which you are familiar) was the "actual" author of Cow Country. Who would you guess it was, based on the Amazon preview?
on “Did Thomas Pynchon Publish a Novel Under the Pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson?” ↗