William Henry Devereaux Jr., spiritually suited for left field but forced to play first base due to a bad hamstring, serves as an unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. In just one convoluted week, he faces numerous challenges including executing a duck threat, having his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovering that his secretary writes better fiction than him, suspecting his wife of infidelity with his dean, and confronting his philandering elderly father, the former king of American Literary Theory at an abandoned amusement park.
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