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Author Mancusi, Nicholas, author.

Title A philosophy of ruin : a novel / Nicholas Mancusi.

Publisher Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2019]

Copies

LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Bailey Fiction  MANCUSI    AVAILABLE  
 Baxter ML Adult Fiction  F Man    AVAILABLE  
 Curtis ML Adult Fiction  FIC Mancusi N    AVAILABLE  
 Patten Free Fiction  F Man    AVAILABLE  
 Walker ML Adult Fiction  Mancusi    AVAILABLE  
Physical Description 254 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii with Oscar's father, has died midflight, her body cooling for hours until the plane can land. Deeply grieving, Oscar feels his life slipping out of his control. A seemingly innocuous one-night stand with a woman named Dawn becomes volatile when, on the first day of classes, he realizes she is his student, and later learns that she is a fledgling campus drug lord. To make matters worse, his family is in debt, having lost their modest savings to a self-help guru who had indoctrinated Oscar's mother by preying on her depression. Desperate to help his family, Oscar breaks with his academic personality--he agrees to help Dawn with a drug run." -- Book jacket.
Subject College teachers -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction.
Drug dealers -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)