@book{710, keywords = {college students, infidelity, professors}, author = {Richard Russo}, title = {Straight Man}, abstract = {Follows Hank Devereaux, a tenured English professor nearing 50 and interim chair of English at the fictitious West Central Pennsylvania University. Hank's midlife crisis includes a wife who is having an affair; a feminist poet who tortures him; a department secretary who is a better writer than he is; and an academic father who gave Hank low self-esteem.}, year = {1997}, pages = {391 p.}, publisher = {Random House}, address = {New York}, note = {Altoona is disguised as Railton.}, language = {English}, }