Smiley puts it, "the secret hog at the center of the university." Unknown Smiley's landlocked Midwestern version of Moby Dick, an innocent embodiment of isolation, stupidity and greed. Its central figure, however, is not a human being but a 700-pound pure white hog who is "as big as a Volkswagen Beetle but much faster." This animal's name Like a Balzac novel, "Moo" has a broad canvas and dozens of characters. As a faculty member at Iowa State University, Jane Smiley knows this scene well.
(as it is familiarly called), horticulture, animal science, biotechnology and engineering are the important majors, and the correct diet for chickensĬan become a big campus issue.
Is set in a large Midwestern university famous for its agricultural college. Instead of concentrating on East and West Coast humanities departments, it But "Moo" is a different sort of academic novel. Surely the academy has already been sufficiently dissected, and by experts. Hearing that news, some readers may sigh. Smiley's new novel, "Moo," announces itself as not only comedy Her novel "A Thousand Acres," like Shakespeare's play, is a tragedy of pride and possession. ANE SMILEY, whose brilliant Iowa version of "King Lear" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1992, is fast becoming the Balzac of the
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