Timothy Monahan, a professor of English, is returning to the campus for the beginning of the school year. It is move-in day, and each of the four girls briefly reflects on what has brought her to Moo University and their hopes for their college careers. Bob Carlson, a sophomore at Moo U, cares for Earl.Ĭhapter two introduces the Dubuque House, a large residence hall on campus and four of its newest residents Mary, Keri, Sherri and Diane. However, Old Meats is home to a huge hog named Earl Butz whose only purpose in life is to eat as much as he would like in order to grow as large as possible as part of an experiment conducted by Dr.
The following summary includes the plot lines that are clearly resolved in the end of the novel.Ĭhapter one of Moo introduces Old Meats, a building at the center of the campus of Moo University no longer in use. Moo contains over a dozen overlapping plot lines and multiple protagonists and is therefore very difficult to summarize.
It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel is a satire that uses a sprawling narrative style, following the lives of dozens of characters over the course of the 1989–1990 academic year. Its setting is a large university, known familiarly as " Moo U" because of its large agricultural college, in the American Midwest.
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