The Class Choregus

By David Morine and David E. Morine

Book Overview

Ed Morley has a problem. He has five days to pass Amherst's comprehensive exam in Fine Arts or he won't graduate. Ed spent the past four years majoring in frat parties and rugby scrums, and after failing the comprehensive once, the odds are against him. However, taking on an obscure office known as the Class Choregus may propel him to a successful graduation. All he needs to do is lead the senior class in song during Commencement week--simple enough if he could read a note of music or carry a tune As Ed navigates his personal comedy of errors, the specter of the Vietnam War looms over campus and a feeble anti-war protest is catalyzed into a fullscale rebellion.

This is a tale of Eastern Seaboard colleges in the Sixties: fraternities, drinking, football, and scoring with "Beta honeys"--a world which is interrupted by the seriousness of the war in Vietnam. Even an apathetic jock like Morley is forced to consider his dilemma ina larger societal context.

If the boys of A Separate Peace and A Catcher in the Rye continued to college, this is the world they would have entered. The Class Choregus belongs among the fine comic college novels which reveal to us the flip side of our fantasies and dreams.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156833267X
• ISBN13: 9781568332673
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Madison Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A laughable view of college antics 45+ years ago

Roman à clef about the road to graduation for an athletic, testosteronic, boozing, irreverent member of Amherst College's class of 1966. A riot at every turn.