The Big U

The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious." But if you want to know what 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 thirty-year-old junior Casimir Radon. Now reissued after years out of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.