When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange.
La Trilogia del Campus Serie
Questa serie esplora con umorismo gli scontri culturali e il mondo accademico attraverso la storia di due professori che si scambiano le cattedre. Seguiamo i loro shock culturali e le avventure inaspettate in terre straniere, che portano a situazioni assurde e argute. La narrazione tocca temi di disordini studenteschi e diversi ambienti universitari, ma offre soprattutto uno sguardo intelligente e divertente sui destini umani e sull'adattabilità. È un'opera che intrattiene indipendentemente dalla familiarità con il mondo accademico.
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