Title: Many pretty toys
First published: 1999
Description: When Nixon orders the bombing of Cambodia, the resulting protests push a West Coast university to the brink of anarchy, altering irrevocably the lives of students and faculty and disrupting the process of storytelling itself.

Through the words of two professors and a communal voice known only as "We," Hazard Adams interweaves the political, literary, and philosophical developments of the time into a story in which generations and their histories meet, as well as literary styles and methods, showing how political and intellectual events play on the consciousness of a range of characters. The spirit here is serious and generous, but not without a satirical element as a communal group attempts to establish an elusive identity.

With a remarkable breadth of method, Adams deliberately evades the usual literary classifications.
Subjects: Fiction, College students, Student movements, FICTION, Historical, English, Languages & Literatures, American Literature, Fiction, historical, general, Northwest, pacific, fiction
LC classification: PS3551.D37 M36 1999