Or so it seems to me. It does not, however, seem so to Shortchangers ' hero, Jonas Trelawny who believes in cultural diversity and equal opportunities for all to the depths of his waspy core. Shortchangers is set at a large American university where political correctness does not even begin to touch how correct everything must be. Jonas is a professor of physics and dean as well as champion to the downtrodden who are about to tread on him. Shortchangers is a delightful book.
Silver is a confident writer.
He's written a book that resonates with a hyper-reality that none of us will find to difficult to imagine. Shortchangers is a very funny work. Silver's subtle humor is wonderful. He plays the story straight and we find the humor all on our own, which somehow makes that humor all the more rich and precious. It would have been easy to tell this story as a moral tale, but Silver doesn't take the bait and the result is both entertaining and even somewhat thought-provoking.