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The Dark Side of Sunshine
Bruce Oliver Newsome, author
Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)
Would you dumb down to fit in?
Simon escapes the ridiculous Riverside University of London by exchanging with its American partner – the University of Sunshine Bayside, only to wake up to the wokest of woke colleges. Virtues are punished as vices, conformity trumps originality, and minds are melded – one falsehood at a time. Being good at his job is his first mistake. In election year, politicians, terrorists, spies, publicists, journalists, and bluffers compete to make an example of him in their fight for a new global society.
The professor is about to be taken to school...
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This was a very clever and insightful read. I enjoyed the way the author found mirth in the bureacracy of modern academic institutions and I was drawn in to the journey of the main character. I felt so sorry for 'Simon' who had such great expectations of his exchange but then found himself stuck in a mire. The characters around Simon were interesting and were shrewdly narrated. The language used was a very accurate reflection of modern 'woke' life and made me laugh, but it was bittersweet because it was all so true!