The Plague Year

Set against the backdrop of a deeply troubled psychotic female student infecting men with the AIDS virus and a fanatical board member taking over the college <I>The Plague Year</I> is a Swiftian black satire of college life in the mid-nineties.</p><p>This haunting detective story echoes Daniel Defoe's <I>The Journal of the Plague Year</I> in its stunning depiction of the horrors and fears of a spreading disease.</p><p><I>The Plague Year</I> is a searing indictment of modern college life and delves deeply into the self-absorbed narcissistic lives of some contemporary college students.</p><p>When a favorite professor does not return for the school year two students Danny a journalist for the school paper and Emily a philosophy major join forces to find out why the professor did not return to teaching. Their findings are shocking and the whole school is thrown into turmoil.</p><p>In the end readers will become strangely attracted to these college students who yearn to escape the emptiness of their lives and find meaning in a chaotic and disturbing world.</p>