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02820aam a2200505Ii 4500 001 83EF04A6495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230902011803 008 230802s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022056597 020 $a 038555012X 020 $a 9780385550123 035 $a (OCoLC)1391978765 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c CZA $d CZA $d FY3 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PS3569.C5548 $b E64 2023 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Schumacher, Julie, $d 1958- $e author. 245 14 $a The English experience / $c Julie Schumacher. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c [2023] 300 $a 230 pages ; $c 20 cm 490 1 $a Jason Fitger ; $v 3 520 $a "The bestselling, Thurber-prize winning author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he leads the annual "Experience Abroad" to London and beyond with eleven clueless undergrads in tow. Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only Professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between the words) occurring during the three weeks of Winter Term. Among his charges are a claustrophobe with a juvenile detention record, a student who erroneously believed he was headed for the Caribbean, a pair of unreconciled lovers, a set of undifferentiated twins, and one young woman who has never been away from her cat before. Through a sea of troubles--personal, institutional and international--the gimlet-eyed, acid-laced Fitger navigates safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes quite surprising places in which we find it"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a College teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Foreign study $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Americans $z England $v Fiction. 651 0 $a England $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 800 1 $a Schumacher, Julie, $d 1958- $t Jason Fitger ; $v 3. 941 $a 12 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020540.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240416010633.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240102010550.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20231206014850.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206013441.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20231006015039.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20231005011036.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20231003012912.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230915010122.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230912012009.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230906010121.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230902013043.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=83EF04A6495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search