Cow Country in Paperback
Cow
Country is the account of one man's frantic pursuit of love and
regional accreditation at a community college with issues. Set at a
rural campus in the throes of demographic and existential crisis, this
lyrical work stakes a formidable claim to being The World's First Community
College Epic. The paperback edition of this unique novel will be
released April 15, 2015. Enjoy!
When a down-on-his-luck educational administrator arrives into the
makeshift bus shelter of Cow Eye Junction, he finds a drought-stricken
town and its community college on the precipice of institutional ruin.
Struggling to navigate this strange world of bloated calf scrota,
orgiastic math instruction, and onrushing regional accreditors, Charlie
must devise a plan to lead Cow Eye Community College through the perils
of continuous improvement to the triumphant culmination of world
history.
Iconoclastic, wry, and ambitiously constructed, Cow Country is Adrian
Jones Pearson's most American work yet, deftly blending the lunacies of
contemporary academia with the tragic consequences of New World
nation-building. A must-read for anyone who has ever worked at an
institution of higher education, or attempted to straddle partisan
lines, this insightful novel offers a poetic requiem for the loss of our
humanity - and our humanities.
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"The future, you see, is but the past in disguise. It is a promise rather than its premise. It is the beautiful plan versus the ugliness of its implementation. Perfection as opposed to reality. The idea transcending its compromise. It is the whisper. The dream. The unfulfilled desire. It is the cafeteria at the end of the long esplanade. The delta where all rivers merge. The eternal premonition of ecstasy rather than the fleeting orgasm itself. The future, Charlie, is our history."
- from Cow Country, Chapter 10: The Plan