Jack Boyd
ASIN: B004KAB22Q
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 389
West Texas is not the first place you think of when you consider squint-eyed musical scholarship. Football, maybe, and smelly cows, but not high level musical investigation. But that's what Cortland (Corty) Ichobod, the proud owner of a brand new Ph.D in ancient music and literature, is thinking of when he moves to Sweetwillow College, the academic guffaw of the Texas Hill Country. Corty is interested in musical scholarship, and, of course, Herva Marmon, the mind-numbing center of all his secular dreams. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, Herva doesn't know Corty exists. Then, you take Trenton Wheedie, an enormous black oboe-playing former jail inmate (who, because of Corty, decides to major in music and help Corty survive academia), a hyper-conservative take-no-prisoners rich religionist cattleman (and Herva's father), a half-Indian, half-Hispanic janitor, a drunken Polish opera ...