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"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW When Clare College's resident eccentric Patrice Umphelby is found drowned in the campus lake, it's called a suicide. But the college president grows suspicious and calls in noted professor/detective Kate Fansler to research the matter. Ingratiating herself with her academic colleagues to learn more about Patrice's life, Kate digs up the evidence she needs to understand her death....… (més)
Patrice Umphelby, a history professor and novelist, has killed herself by walking into a lake with stones in her pocket. Unfortunately this occurred on the campus of an East Coast women’s college, which is unhappy about the notoriety ithas caused, and Kate Fansler is recruited to look into this event with an eye toward restoring the school’s reputation. When Kate learns that Patrice was indeed planning to commit suicide, only not just *then*, she decides that something rather more sinister must have been going on…. As usual, this seventh novel in the Kate Fansler series is replete with quotations and pithy moments, especially with regard to the need for women’s colleges, the pros and cons of womens’ studies programs, and the overarching theme of death and perceptions about death. I especially enjoyed the discussions of womens’ studies because so many of the rants against the idea ring so hollow (and did when this book was written in the early 1980s). Kate herself is always engaging and although I’m getting tired of the frequent drinking/smoking scenarios, at least the author acknowledges those by making wry comments about how old-fashioned Kate’s habits are! Quite fun overall; recommended. ( )
rabck from Bumma's book distribution; lovely cozy mystery. Clare College Professor Patrice committed suicide - or did she? Almost a year after her death, the college president asks Kate to investigate, under the guise of serving on a task force about offering gender studies at this all girls college. References to lots of literature to explain people's actions (the author was really a college professor), which had me scurrying to Wikipedia - and learning a lot! Was it or wasn't it strings out to the last page, with the who dun it being a surprise. ( )
I don't know what to think of this book now. I enjoyed it at the time, even if I didn't always agree with it, but after the author committed suicide in a manner consistent with some of the views expressed here, I haven't been able to look at this book. ( )
Patrice Umphelby s'est-elle vraiment suicidée ? Bien sûr, elle proférait des théories peu habituelles sur la mort et revendiquait le droit de choisir sa fin, mais de là à passer à l'acte... Universitaire reconnue, romancière à succès, Patrice dérangeait. Son dynamisme, son courage et sa force de vie faisaient de l'ombre aux théoriciens qui mettent la femme d'un certain âge sur une voie de garage. Face aux rumeurs persistantes, l'université de Patrice fait appel à Kate Fansler, femme accomplie et indépendante, professeur de littérature, également connue dans le milieu universitaire pour ses talents de détective.
Avec, en toile de fond, une réflexion novatrice sur la place des femmes dans l'université et dans la société, cette nouvelle enquête de Kate Fansler offre une solide intrigue et une galerie de portraits pour le moins inquiétants.
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Why do I think of Death As a friend? It is because he is a scatterer, He scatters the human frame The nerviness and the great pain, Throws it on the fresh fresh air And now it is nowhere. Only sweet death does this, Sweet Death, kind Death, Of all the gods you are best.
Stevie Smith
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For David Hadas/To mark a quarter-century of conversations about death and life
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The New York City memorial service for Patrice Umphelby (for she had, of course, had a funeral service at Clare College many months earlier), was attended by Kate Fansler and several hundred other people, all of whom found it uniquely moving.
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"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW When Clare College's resident eccentric Patrice Umphelby is found drowned in the campus lake, it's called a suicide. But the college president grows suspicious and calls in noted professor/detective Kate Fansler to research the matter. Ingratiating herself with her academic colleagues to learn more about Patrice's life, Kate digs up the evidence she needs to understand her death....
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