Jean Hanff Korelitz. (2017). The Devil and Webster. Grand Central Publishing.

Jean Hanff Korelitz. 2017. The Devil and Webster. Grand Central Publishing.

Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Devil and Webster. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

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   • bioText: Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, The Properties of Breath, and three previous novels, A Jury of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The Devil and Webster, and The White Rose, as well as a novel for children, Interference Powder. She has also published essays in the anthologies Modern Love and Because I Said So, and in the magazines Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel and Leisure (Family), and others. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at the New Yorker and Princeton poetry professor) and two children.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses.
Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. So Naomi isn't surprised or unduly alarmed when Webster students begin the fall semester with an outdoor encampment around "The Stump"-a traditional campus gathering place for generations of student activists-to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure. A former student radical herself, Naomi admires the protestors' passion, especially when her own daughter, Hannah, joins their ranks.
Then Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student with a devastating personal history, emerges as the group's leader, and the demonstration begins to consume Naomi's life, destabilizing...

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From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses.
Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. So Naomi isn't surprised or unduly alarmed when Webster students begin the fall semester with an outdoor encampment around "The Stump"-a traditional campus gathering place for generations of student activists-to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure. A former student radical herself, Naomi admires the protestors' passion, especially when her own daughter, Hannah, joins their ranks.
Then Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student with a devastating personal history, emerges as the group's leader, and the demonstration begins to consume Naomi's life, destabilizing Webster College from the inside out. As the crisis slips beyond her control, Naomi must take increasingly desperate measures to protect her friends, colleagues, and family from an unknowable adversary.
Touching on some of the most topical and controversial concerns at the heart of our society, this riveting novel examines the fragility that lies behind who we think we are-and what we think we believe.

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   • source: NPR's Fresh Air
   • content: Korelitz's new novel is a smart, semi-satire about the reign of identity politics on college campuses today... The Devil and Webster is wittily on target about, among other things, social class and privilege, silencing and old-school feminist ambivalence about power.
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   • source: The Wall Street Journal
   • content: Satisfying...A sharp and insightful novel....with a clever plot twist...This ought to be the start of a golden age for the campus novel.
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   • source: Shelf Awareness
   • content: The Devil and Webster can be read as a suspense novel seasoned with social commentary or as a plot-driven academic satire. Korelitz excels in both directions.
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   • source: The New York Post,
   • content: A hilarious send-up of the current college climate.
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   • source: BookReporter
   • content: There is so much in this novel, a thoughtful and beautiful work.... This is highly recommended reading, but don't forget to put on your thinking cap. You'll need it.
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   • source: People (Praise for You Should Have Known)
   • content: This consuming, expertly plotted thriller moves along at a slow burn, building up to shocking revelations about Grace's past and ending with a satisfying twist on her former relationship mantra; 'doubt can be a gift.'
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   • source: The Boston Globe (Praise for You Should Have Known)
   • content: Korelitz does not disappoint as she chronicles the emotional unraveling of her heroine in this gripping saga...A cut above your average who-is-this-stranger-in-my-marriage-bed novel, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN transforms itself at certain moments from a highly effective thriller into a nuanced novel of family, heritage, identity, and nurture.
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review) (Praise for You Should Have Known)
   • content: This excellent literary mystery [unfolds] with authentic detail in a rarified contemporary Manhattan. . . intriguing and beautiful.
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     January 23, 2017
     Korelitz (Admission) raids the current news climate for this hot-topic read about diversity, protest, and “liberal idiocy” on the campus of progressive Webster College, headed by its first female and Jewish president, Naomi Roth, a feminist academic with her own radical past. Roth’s pride in Webster’s evolution from white male homogeneity to carefully culled inclusion is tested by the denial of tenure to popular black professor Nicholas Gall, which spawns a massive student movement to protect him led by Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student. Though Roth prides herself on speaking “truth to power,” when she is the “establishment” her words fall on deaf ears. They fail to impress even her own daughter, Hannah, a member of the protest movement; best friend, Francine, the college’s admissions dean going through her own academic crisis; and the restive college board. There’s much to ponder in this dense political and social debate, and it’s as overwhelming to Naomi as it is to readers, who, though pitying her no-win situation, can see the hypocrisy that blinds her. Ultimately, it isn’t the political twist that’s so riveting in Korelitz’s morality tale, but the apolitical, ageless struggle of a mother letting go of her daughter, a fact “so very ordinary, but... everything, too.”

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      December 1, 2016
      The president of an elite New England college grapples with student protest in Korelitz's sixth novel (You Should Have Known, 2014, etc.).Naomi Roth is Webster College's first female president, a fitting denouement to the school's half-century evolution from a bastion of WASP privilege to a progressive institution housing a diverse faculty and student body. Naomi, herself from an earlier generation of demonstrators, is inclined to be tolerant when a group of students camps on the Webster quad to protest the denial of tenure to popular professor Nicholas Gall. Although the students insinuate it's because Gall is black, in fact his only published work was found to be plagiarized--but if Naomi says that, Gall could sue the college. She hopes the protestors, who include her daughter, Hannah, will soon fade away, but she hasn't reckoned on the charisma of Omar Khayal, a student of Palestinian origins, whose soft-spoken demeanor belies his ability to inflame the situation at every turn. Korelitz has always been a deft plotter, so presumably it's intentional that readers will figure out Omar is not what he seems long before Naomi does. She is the latest in the author's long line of smart but blinkered female protagonists, but this time the origins of Naomi's obtuseness remain murky, and her relationships with secondary characters like best friend Francine Rigor, Webster dean of admissions, are less fully fleshed than usual. In addition, the academic concerns that made such a vivid backdrop for the human drama of Admission (2009) here seem excessively self-referential, as does the endless wrangling about just how inclusive Webster really is. Granted, this is currently a hot topic on real-life campuses, but it needs a more compelling fictional framework. Nonetheless, Korelitz's smooth prose and unfailing intelligence make this novel worth reading, if not quite up to her usual high standards. A bit of a disappointment from a talented author.

      COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      February 15, 2017
      As a college student, Naomi Roth questioned authority. Now, as the first woman president of elite Webster College, Naomi Roth is the authority. When a protest over the denial of tenure for a beloved professor evolves into an unruly, Occupy Wall Street-type tent encampment on campus, Roth tries to keep both an open mind and an open door. Roundly ignored by students and increasingly excoriated by peers, press, and parents, Roth faces further challenges when tensions and violence escalate. At the heart of the demonstrations is Omar Khayal, a Palestinian student who famously lost his family to sectarian unrest and escaped to the U.S. rather than be recruited as a suicide bomber. Quiet, charismatic, and eloquent, Khayal captures media attention and captivates students, especially Roth's own daughter, Hannah. In the strength and conviction with which her defiant student and dedicated college president address entitlement and acceptance, prejudice and privilege, Korelitz, author of the best-selling You Should Have Known (2014), taps into the current unsettled campus and cultural zeitgeist with eerie precision.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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      November 1, 2016
      

      Former student radical Naomi Roth, the first female president of Webster College, isn't bothered by the once conservative campus's fiery progressives. But when a young Palestinian with a tragic past emerges as leader of a protest over a beloved professor's denial of tenure, there's trouble. Korelitz's last title, You Should Have Known, has sold 150,000 copies across formats.

      Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      June 26, 2017
      A consummate actor, Burton hits all the right notes delving into the conflicted inner life of Webster College President Naomi Roth: she convincingly portrays Roth’s pain that her daughter is growing older and moving on, and as she deals with a student rebellion and its leader, Palestinian student Omar Kayal, whom she at once admires and distrusts. Burton makes listeners ponder, as Roth does, sets of antithetical values: freedom and discipline, friendship and principles, youthful idealism and unrestrained rebellion, pity and common sense. This is a thought-provoking book and Burton’s narration is excellent throughout. A Grand Central hardcover.

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