{"id":14672,"date":"2014-08-26T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=14672"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:47:49","slug":"university-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/14672","title":{"rendered":"University Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is drawing to a close and now our minds turn back to academia. In just a week the fall semester will begin here at UW-Whitewater and our leisure reading time may dwindle. Here are a few bildungsromans to ease you back into University life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Abroad<\/strong> (2014) by Katie Crouch<br \/>A young English college student studying in Italy is murdered<br \/>Browsing Books, 2nd Floor: PS3603.R683 A63 2014<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Accursed<\/strong> (2013) by Joyce Carol Oates<br \/>This gothic tale full of shapeshifters and vampires, and perhaps the devil himself, is set at turn of the (last) century Princeton University <br \/>Browsing Books, 2nd floor: PS3565.A8 A63 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>College Girl<\/strong> (2008) by Patricia Weitz<br \/>This coming-of-age story follows a working-class transfer student entering the University of Connecticut.<br \/>Browsing Books, 2nd Floor: PS3623.E4616 C65 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gate at the Stairs: A Novel<\/strong> (2009) by Lorrie Moore<br \/>Shortly after 9\/11 a Midwestern college student becomes a part time nanny<br \/>Main Collection, 3rd Floor: PS3563.O6225 G37 2009<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit<\/strong> (2013) by Graham Joyce<br \/>A suspenseful story of an English college student&#8217;s coming-of-age in 1976<br \/>Browsing Books, 2nd Floor: PR6060.O93 G57 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haunted Life: And Other Writings<\/strong> (2014) Jack Kerouac <br \/>This lost (until 2002) unfinished novella takes place during the summer preceding the protagonist&#8217;s sophomore year at Boston College, shortly before the US enters World War II. Includes related sketches, notes, and letters<br \/>Browsing Books, 2nd Floor: PS3521.E735 A6 2014 <\/li>\n<li><strong>Invisible<\/strong> (2009) by Paul Auster<br \/>This coming-of-age story of a poetry student at Columbia University in 1967 channels Heart of Darkness according to the critics<br \/>Main Collection, 3rd Floor: PS3551.U77 I58 2009<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rule of Four<\/strong> (2004) by Ian Caldwell &#038; Dustin Thomason<br \/>Princeton students get involved in a Dan Brown style coming-of-age thriller<br \/>Main Collection, 3rd Floor: PS3603.A435 R85 2004<\/li>\n<li><strong>Snow Garden: A Novel<\/strong> (2001) Christopher Rice<br \/>Suspense and intrigue surround first year students at Atherton University when a professor&#8217;s wife dies<br \/>Main Collection, 3rd Floor: PS3568.I2717 S66 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is drawing to a close and now our minds turn back to academia. In just a week the fall semester will begin here at UW-Whitewater and our leisure reading time may dwindle. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/14672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[919],"tags":[178,167192],"class_list":["post-14672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-reading","tag-books","tag-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}