Length13h 4m
About this audiobook
Albert Corde is a professor of journalism and dean of students at a Chicago university. He and his wife, Minna, travel to Bucharest, Romania, where Minna's mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semiconscious in the local state hospital. As Corde tries to adapt to life in his mother-in-law's small apartment and cope with her relations and friends, news filters through to him of problems he left behind in Chicago: one of his students has been murdered, and a series of articles he is writing offends powerful and influential Chicagoans he had thought of as friends. Gradually it becomes clear that Corde's trip abroad is more than a brief interlude in a calm and orderly life, and that nothing will ever be the same again. Witty and erudite, The Dean's December will be a delight to fans of Saul Bellow.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (2.3K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length13 hrs 4 mins
Narrated bySean Runnette
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 5, 2015
LanguageEnglish
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