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Key ideas from the book
- A divided English department makes academic leadership a source of conflict as well as responsibility.
- Devereaux’s anarchic temperament clashes with his role as department chair.
- A chaotic week brings professional disputes and personal suspicions to the foreground.
- Devereaux confronts his relationship with his philandering father.
- The novel pairs comic situations with a compassionate look at unfulfilled promise and personal difficulty.
About Straight Man by Richard Russo
William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chair of the English department at a badly underfunded college in Pennsylvania’s rust belt. A born anarchist, he faces a department sharply divided against itself—and a week that brings conflict with a colleague, suspicion about his wife and dean, and a threat involving a goose on local television.
Alongside the campus turmoil, Devereaux must reckon with his philandering father and the gap between youthful promise and present reality. Witty and compassionate, Straight Man is a comic novel for readers drawn to academic settings, complicated family ties, and characters navigating a particularly bad stretch of life.
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