Big U

The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel &quote;electrifying&quote; and &quote;hilarious&quote;. but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.