A man televises his threat to kill a duck every day until he receives money in Richard Russo's novel Straight Man, which is set in one of these places.
A place of this type gets into financial trouble when a scheme to mine gold under a virgin gold forest in Costa Rica is exposed. In a novel with this setting, a man moves into his girlfriend's place after a passing airliner ejects the shit from its toilet into his apartment. A man televises his threat to kill a duck every day until he receives money in Richard Russo's novel Straight Man, which is set in one of these places. The novels Nice Work, Small World, and Changing Places form a "trilogy" of books by (*) David Lodge set in this kind of place. The eponymous Group in Mary McCarthy's novel is formed at one of these places. The protagonist of a novel with this setting falls asleep while smoking a cigarette and burns his lover's bedsheets, dates Christine Callaghan behind the back of her boyfriend Bertrand Welsh, and shows up outrageously drunk to his own lecture on "Merrie England." For 10 points, name this setting of novels such as Lucky Jim, whose protagonist is a medieval history professor.
A place of this type gets into financial trouble when a scheme to mine gold under a virgin gold forest in Costa Rica is exposed.
campus novels [or college; or university; prompt on school]