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Title: Looking for Class : Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0-06-052703-X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exposing "The Game" in grand style
Comment: This gem of book begins, in Feiler's self deprecating style as he finds himself somewhat increduously accepted for his Master's at Cambridge (certainly not because he doubts his own abilities but more because of the imposing wall between Oxbridge and the rest of us). Feiler journals his year with a selective and at times detached air. Snapshots and glimpses of Cambridge float by as he makes his way towards his degree. Yet, this is no mismatched mosaic, but rather an expressionistic view of a year well spent in "the game." Academia is, of course, a construct built much for its own purposes and the two institutions of Cambridge and Oxford represent the grandest of these constructs. Feiler seems to know this starting out, and nevertheless, he dives into life at Cambridge with all the eagerness of a ten year old embarking on a day at the Magic Kingdom. Throughout his year of study he is frequently caught up in the juxtoposition of very high ideals and very low life; very fine minds with very little common sense. All is not what the romantics might imagine along the banks of the Cam. But Feiler is no anti-intellectual detractor aiming for a cheap expose. So, while the layers are peeled back in what is at times a very private journal, revealing both the ironic and the farcical, he never loses respect for, and never insults the tradition that is Cambridge. In the end, it is a very humane and forgiving look at what is at once both a place of lofty thoughts and grimy academia. It is in essence a lovingly realistic journal of one man's ride through what remains for most us, intellectual Oz.
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Title: Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0380977761 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0380807319 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Central Cambridge : A Guide to the University and Colleges by Kevin Taylor ISBN: 0521459133 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Learning to Bow : Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0395647266 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 22 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Under the Big Top : A Season with the Circus by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0060527021 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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