| Summary |
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. A Philosophy of Ruin is a heart-pounding thrill ride into the darkest corners of human geography, and a philosophical reckoning with the forces that determine our destiny. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Subject |
College teachers -- Fiction.
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Drug dealers -- Fiction.
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Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction.
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Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781488098635
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| STANDARD # |
68F286A5-8029-4982-B2E6-29B973FAAF06 OverDrive |
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