Bewilderment, cliches, amnesia
Donna Rifkind
Special to The Sun
Sunday, May 24, 1998May brings variety, in nature and in novels. Garden, park, beach or bathtub: choose a place, settle in and marvel at the luxuriant new crop of spring fiction.
"The Student Body" by Jane Harvard (Villard, 352 pages, $23) is also a smartly paced thriller, one of several just-published mysteries set, coincidentally, at Harvard University. What's different here is the novel's offbeat authorship: "Jane Harvard" is a pseudonym for four Harvard graduates, class of '86, who have collaborated on a sexy, scandalous tale about an idealistic student reporter who uncovers a university-sanctioned prostitution ring.
Vivid, if not always entirely plausible, the novel has a large cast of multi-ethnic characters and plenty of sardonic humor. Its great strength is its ability simultaneously to celebrate and ridicule the earnest multicultural atmosphere of contemporary university life.
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