The Best Laugh Last
This is the hardback edition, which came out first.
Review from Allen Peacock, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, December 13, 1981
This engaging first novel is set on the ramshackle campus of Ashland College, a heavily subsidized black Methodist school known for its corrupt administration, acquiescent faculty, and captive student body. By turns howlingly funny and deadly serious, Rosenman relates the outlandish exploits of journeyman instructor David Newman, an idealistic loner (and Kent State shooting suvivor) who will not submit to the despotic regime of Dean Bledsoe and his graft-hungry minions. Reminiscent of the early John Barth (”The End of the Road”), “The Best Laugh Last” is an impressive debut, and one of the best “campus” novels in recent years.
Below is the Paperback edition.
