TY - SER KW - college students KW - infidelity KW - professors AU - Richard Russo AB - 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. C1 - 1950s C3 - Blair County; Altoona C4 - Literary; Campus; Comedy; Labor CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Altoona is disguised as Railton. N2 - 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. PB - Random House PP - New York PY - 1997 RN - Richard Russo (1949— ), born in Johnstown, New York, earned a PhD at the University of Arizona. His novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in Maine. EP - 391 p. TI - Straight Man ER -