num_pages: 286
description: Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire—and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker’s razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College—mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself.
language: English
title: Pictures from an Institution
titlecomplete: Pictures from an Institution
characters: Irene Rosenbaum, Gertrude Johnson, Gottfried Rosenbaum, Pamela Robbins, Constance Morgan, Flo Whittaker, Camille Batterson, Jerrold Whittaker, Dwight Robbins, Unnamed Narrator (Pictures from an Institution), Derek Robbins
genres: 20th Century, American, Modern, Academia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Campus, Literature, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 459
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: University of Chicago Press