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In the middle of the wheat fields of the American Midwest, Moo University is in a state of confusion: lack of money, intrigues and machinations, secret projects, mad cows... Jane Smiley has written a comedy of manners in which she observes, with a disillusioned irony, a community where men and women, the naive and the cynical, thinkers and careerists live and work together in a complete lack of harmony. Spiritual and caustic, Jane Smiley uses the characters of this microcosm tenderly to criticize the 80-90 decade, its lack of reference points and its unbridled desire for consumption.