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A Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis It�s the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke. The self-declared �best humpers in St. Paul,� they haven�t quite figured out how to make their talents pay. But that�s all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris�s mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry. The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morris�s cousin Crip, a stay-at-home genius who sublimates his sex drive into song. Within a day, Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise. But then an Irish Catholic beauty falls under the spell of Crip�s verse and goes gaga over Morris. She thinks he�s a Jewish-Communist revolutionary poet, and who is he to tell her otherwise? But is it happiness Morris truly wants, or money? And what will Mama Katz say? (less)

A Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis It�s the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are (…more)