Cheese Monkeys

<p>After 15 years of designing more than 1500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U where the young narrator has decided to major in art much to his parents' dismay. It is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity finding a calling in life and being inspired by a loving demanding and highly eccentric teacher.</p>