{"product_id":"nevergreen-9781948598521","title":"Nevergreen","description":"\u003cb\u003eA smart, fast, funny, and incisive portrait of today's liberal arts college scene, cancel culture, and more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA chance encounter-if it is by chance-gives J. the opportunity of a lifetime. A physician in a midlife funk, he is invited to speak at a small college. But when he arrives at the secluded island campus of Nevergreen College he gets a lot more than he bargained for. No one actually shows up for his talk, but that doesn't stop it from becoming the center of a firestorm of controversy-with potentially fatal consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNevergreen\u003c\/i\u003e brings to mind Vonnegut's brilliant short story, \u003ci\u003eHarrison Bergeron\u003c\/i\u003e, but on steroids. Pessin's is an unsparing satire, at once funny and horrifying and compelling because it's so real.\"-Howard Gordon, Emmy Award Winning Producer of \u003ci\u003eHomeland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e24\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe X-Files\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One part \u003ci\u003eLucky Jim\u003c\/i\u003e and three parts \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, \u003c\/i\u003eAndrew Pessin's terrific and terrifying novel may just be the great campus novel of our generation. Every page delivers a hearty laugh, and every laugh soon blooms into a painful stab of recognition, reminding us that we're all stuck on Nevergreen. This one is a pure delight.\"-Liel Leibovitz, editor at large, \u003ci\u003eTablet Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sharp, funny, and ultimately scary, \u003ci\u003eNevergreen\u003c\/i\u003e cuts right to the quick of campus cancel culture and the ideological excesses that generate it. It may officially be a satire but it may as well be a documentary, it's so close to home. That something so serious can also be so entertaining is impressive.\"-William Jacobson, Cornell University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Welcome to Nevergreen, a small college in full descent into madness. Intelligent and witty, with crackling dialogue and keenly planted in the cultural firmament, \u003ci\u003eNevergreen\u003c\/i\u003e engages from start to finish. More \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e than \u003ci\u003eAnimal House\u003c\/i\u003e. Be prepared to be offended and like it.\"-Scott Johnston, author of Amazon bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCampusland \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A biting satire of a college campus driven literally mad with political correctness. Funny, disturbing, and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eNevergreen\u003c\/i\u003e will change the way you look at college life.\"-Michael Satlow, Brown University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Nevergreen\u003c\/i\u003e is so painful I wanted to stop; yet so funny I kept going. Pessin has written a delirious yet detailed roman à clé for almost any campus today. Parody imitates life as Kafka wanders through Wokeland. In its own outrageous way, a triumph of sanity.\"-Richard Landes, Boston University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A rampage of a novel. Pessin's nightmarish, all-too-real satire of contemporary academia is part Pynchon, part Kafka, and the most ominous campus horror tale since C. S. Lewis had demons infiltrate Edgestow University in \u003ci\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-Michael Weingrad, Portland State University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Read Professor Pessin's fantabulous book on the nuking of the college mind. It is Kafka's \u003ci\u003eTrial \u003c\/i\u003emeets the movie \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pie\u003c\/i\u003e, and it will make your sides heave with hilarity while your heart weeps over the horror that is 'wokefulness.' Read this book NOW, and then JOIN THE RESISTANCE.\"-Ze'ev Maghen, Shalem College, author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Lennon and the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Think a brilliant case of David Lodge meets \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e. You laugh until you realize just how close this is to reality. Pessin updates the academic novel to include cancel culture and virtue signaling. Strongly, strongly recommended.\"-Peter Herman, San Diego State University\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Books Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50915977068818,"sku":"9781948598521","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12d38aee-a312-4b4a-92e6-666105b7031c.jpg?v=1738833005","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nevergreen-9781948598521","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}