American comedy novels (Book Guide): Adventures of Wim, A Confederacy of Dunces, Moo, Glamorama, John Dies at the End

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 47. Chapters: Adventures of Wim, A Confederacy of Dunces, Moo, Glamorama, John Dies at the End, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Service with a Smile, Heavy Weather, Assault on the Senses, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Pigs Have Wings, Full Moon, Youth in Revolt, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, Brewster's Millions, Seventeen, A Cool Million, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Fool, The Magic Christian, Fletch, Off for the Sweet Hereafter, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Zanesville, The Oblivion Society, Penrod Jashber, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., Jill the Reckless, You Don't Love Me Yet, Pool and its Role in Asian Communism, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, What a Piece of Work I Am, Naked Came the Manatee, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, Another Roadside Attraction, Then We Came to the End, Good as Gold, Winter Kills, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, A Melon for Ecstasy, What They Did to Princess Paragon, When Patty Went to College, Slaves of Spiegel, Lake Wobegon Days, The Exploding Detective, And the Devil Will Drag You Under, The Worms of Kukumlima, The Keeper of Secrets, Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario, Frozen Assets, A Short History of a Small Place, Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Mansfield Park and Mummies. Excerpt: Moo is a 1995 novel by Jane Smiley. It is set in the American Midwest on the fictional campus of Moo University during the 1989-1990 academic year. The novel is a comedy that uses a sprawling narrative style, encompassing the lives of dozens of characters. Moo contains over a dozen overlapping plot lines and multiple protagonists and is therefore very difficult to summarize traditionally. The ...