Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed on 4/14/2012 + 813 more book reviews

Lets see. A professor of poetry, twice married, twice divorced, loses his weekly action when his strumpet hangs up her diaphragm. What to do. Hey, why not hit on one of his young students. He does. They do it. She files a discrimination complaint. Wow! But, have I read much of this before? And, by a Nobelist? Shades of Saul Bellow (The Professor of Desire)! A book, copyright 1999, by another white South African Nobelist, about bullroar that was popular 30 years ago. Lets get up-to-date. These days this happens in middle school. So he admits his guilt. Wait though! The university cannot accept that at face value; they must have more. In short, they must have a way of ameliorating their own status in the public eye. So all of this to get him to resign his job and to take up with a daughter on her remote farm. More trouble. Now into the post-apartheid struggles of South Africa. Somehow this fits more readily than the prolonged introductory part. Im not sure that anyone will like the ending, if it is an ending, and if it is an ending, then why is it an ending?

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