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Professor Lenny Thorson lives in a defunct revolving restaurant, obsesses over word derivations, and teaches linguistics at a fourth-rate college with a gerbil for a mascot. Lenny''s thirty-four years have not been easy-he grew up in a junkyard with his widowed father and lives under a cloud of guilt for having killed another boxer as a teenager. Desperate to save his teaching career, Lenny seizes the opportunity to document the Skalwegian language with its last living speaker, Charlie Fox. Life appears to have finally taken a turn for the better... Unfortunately for Lenny, it hasn''t. He soon finds himself at war with Charlie, his dean, a ruthless mobster, and his own conscience.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781645992394
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 308
  • Udgivet:
  • 8. september 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 140x216x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 390 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 9. december 2024

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Professor Lenny Thorson lives in a defunct revolving restaurant, obsesses over word derivations, and teaches linguistics at a fourth-rate college with a gerbil for a mascot. Lenny''s thirty-four years have not been easy-he grew up in a junkyard with his widowed father and lives under a cloud of guilt for having killed another boxer as a teenager.

Desperate to save his teaching career, Lenny seizes the opportunity to document the Skalwegian language with its last living speaker, Charlie Fox. Life appears to have finally taken a turn for the better...

Unfortunately for Lenny, it hasn''t. He soon finds himself at war with Charlie, his dean, a ruthless mobster, and his own conscience.

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