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Leland Edwards, a piano-playing fisherman and English professor, has become dean of Rookery State College in Minnesota. With this title comes the daunting task of saving his beloved campus from diminished enrollment, hockey thuggery, and its ignoble associations with Paul Bunyan. So when the most famous poet in America agrees to come to Rookery, Leland hopes that his reading will put Rookery State on the literary map.
But when he arrives, the poet is more and less than what Leland expected--and their relationship leads Leland on a wild ride that will compel him to harbor a fugitive, stand up to his domineering mother, and finally make peace with his brief attempt at love and the tragedy that ensued. . . .
- Sales Rank: #2355198 in Books
- Published on: 1998-03-28
- Released on: 1998-03-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.84" h x .93" w x 4.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 432 pages
Amazon.com Review
Readers of Jon Hassler's Rookery Blues will remember Leland Edwards as a high-spirited young English professor and jazz pianist who, with like-minded fellow academics, formed a quartet called Icejam in 1969. In Hassler's latest novel, The Dean's List, Leland is 25 years older and a much sadder man. Now the dean of Rookery State College, a mediocre institution in northern Minnesota, Leland finds his administrative duties and his dying mother shouldering out what little energy or time he has for music. But if Leland Edwards has given up his dreams of a jazz career, he still has some hopes for his reputation as an academic. When a famous elderly poet, Richard Falcon, comes to Rookery State to work on what he hopes will be his final masterpiece, Leland sees an opportunity to put himself and his institution on the map.
The Dean's List is more melancholy than its predecessor. Still, Jon Hassler's inimitable style, his flair for character, and his well-limned portraits of Minnesota and its people lighten the shadow of gloom that hangs over Rookery State College this year.
From Library Journal
In this sequel to Rookery Blues (LJ 6/1/95), Hassler revisits Rookery State College in Minnesota some 30 years later. Leland Edwards, one of the faculty in the first book, is now dean of the college. In spite of growing older and more successful, however, he is still striving to understand his family and friends, tentatively exploring new relationships, and often simply trying to survive the follies of campus life in the 1990s. These are not easy tasks since he has complex ties to his dependent mother and his ex-wife. Additionally, he is constantly beset by academic Philistines who are more concerned with finances than education. Using both humor and affection, Hassler has developed quirky, eccentric, but believable characters to bedevil Leland and entertain the reader. In doing so, he has succeeded in portraying the small gains and losses that make up daily life for most people. Recommended for most contemporary fiction collections.?Barbara E. Kemp, SUNY at Albany
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From Booklist
Hassler, author of the critically lauded novel Rookery Blues, has resurrected the hero of that work, Leland Edwards, dean of Rookery State College, for his latest novel. Dean Edwards, a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of English, leads a quiet, complacent life. He is divorced, lives with his aging yet still domineering mother, attends weekly bureaucratic administration meetings, teaches English to bored college freshmen, and spends his spare time fishing. It is only when the most famous poet in the U.S., Richard Falcon, agrees to come to Rookery State College as part of a fund-raising effort, that Leland's quiet lifestyle is transformed. During the poet's visit, Leland stands up to his tyrannical mother, harbors a fugitive, revisits memories of the father he lost when he was 14, and ultimately makes peace with himself. Quietly amusing and engaging, Hassler's well-written portrait of life in a tiny Minnesota town will please all readers. Kathleen Hughes
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Jon Hassler's Dean's List explores aging and significance.
By A Customer
As a displaced Minnesotan, I always enjoy revisiting my home state via the novels of Jon Hassler. Like coming home for the holidays, this book evokes the mixed emotions of anticipation and disappointment, the joy and frustration of renewing relationships with the relatives, and the uncomfortable reality that time takes its toll on the ones we love.
Hassler fans will find in The Dean's List another enjoyable trip to the now-familiar small town of Rookery. But this book is unlike its predecessors in that it may be Hassler's last outing to the Badbattle River valley. Readers may not know that Hassler has Parkinson's disease. And the awareness of his mortality seeps through the pages of this book.
While all of his books are to some degree autobiographical, we see in The Dean's List a greater sense of authorial self-revelation. Leland Edwards, the Icejam Quintet alumnus and now dean of the college, is a frustrated academic-turned-administrator struggling to keep his school above water. He encounters his hero, Richard Falcon, a Frost-esque poet working on his magnum opus. Edwards decides to revitalize the good name of Rookery State by bringing the esteemed poet to campus for a rare reading.
Little does Edwards know that Falcon has his own struggles, not the least of which is the onset of Parkinson's disease. And in these two characters we get a glimpse of Jon Hassler's own plight. Both Edwards and Falcon--and Hassler himself, we might surmise--are fighting to achieve a sense of purpose, meaning, accomplishment and lasting significance at a point in their lives where the clock is ticking and the odds are against them. Will they achieve their goals? Will they complete the tasks that lie before them? And will they be remembered when they are gone?
It is these elements that make this novel an intriguing read. True, it lacks some of the power and beauty of his earlier novels--but this too, is illustrative of the trauma we experience as we approach the end of life. Can we find meaning and significance in our midlife and waning years? This novel provides insights well worth contemplating, from one who well knows what it feels like to be there.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Find a comfortable chair, put up your feet, and enjoy!
By Mary Whipple
There's a comfortable "old-shoeness" to picking up a Hassler novel. One doesn't read Hassler primarily for the plots, though they are sometimes dramatic and always include a grande finale. Rather, one reads him for his wry depictions of ordinary humans and for his gentle, but trenchant observations about midwestern, middleclass, or academic life. The Dean's List is a sequel to Rookery Blues, and it is helpful, but not necessary, to have read that.
Though the plot line here is not as insistent as in some of his other novels, one doesn't really care. Who can read this book and not be amused by characters like Dot, "traumatized in...youth by the Great Depression," a woman who "hangs up her used paper towels to dry." The annual fund-raiser dinner at the Hi-Rise housing for the elderly is a classic-- collecting funds to build rest room facilities on the main floor so that residents "caught short" won't have to go upstairs to their apartments to find relief. Lolly Edwards's planning and attending her own full-blown wake so that she can see her friends and out-of-town relatives and hear all her eulogies is so remarkable one wonders why more people don't do it! I loved every minute of this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Minnesota Blues
By M. Tosko
I have not read Hassler's "Rookery Blues," but after finishing "Dean's List" this morning, I plan to start "Blues" by nightfall. Hassler's story stays with you even when you're not reading him--the mark of a good writer. Although much of the book is suffused with a melancholic, wintry mood, it is also greatly funny at times. The malapropic hockey coach is particularly hilarious. On the down side, there may be just a few too many extended-family characters than necessary, and it is hard to believe that the protagonist, approaching 60 years of age, is genuinely such a "mama's boy"! Also, the protagonist's second marriage at the end seems a little forced, as we learned comparatively little about his new wife during the main part of the book. On the plus side, Hassler's story keeps the reader involved, and his inclusion of poems by the fictional, aging poet, Robert Falcon, adds a nice touch of realism. I would also truly love to see hordes of people come out to see a beloved poet, as happens in the book. In short, "Dean's List" is engaging without being overwrought. I'd especially recommend it for anyone who is or has been in academia in the 1990s. Hassler, much like Richard Russo in "Straight Man," manages to poke fun at higher education while also eliciting a certain amount of respect for it.
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