Big Time is not just a hilarious novel; it’s a mirror to the distorted reality of modern American college campuses.
Welcome to Coors State University, a cash-strapped college that sold naming rights, academic programs, and, ultimately, its soul to a beer company just to keep the lights on. At Coors, the engineering professors are expanding the stadium, criminal justice faculty are the campus cops, and the history professors sell popcorn at concession stands. It’s the world turned upside down—yet not very far from the truth at today’s big state schools. Big Time is subversive and hilarious novel for our time.
Praise for Big Time: a novel by Rus Bradburd
“Rus Bradburd has chosen the perfect target for satire and delivered a sharp, clean hit. Big Time is a big-time funny book.”
—Jonathan Eig, author of King: a Life and Ali: a Life
“Big Time is a subversive, sidesplitting, screwball of a novel. More important, it’s a commentary on the role of sports on our college campuses and an examination of what that means for American society today. I have been a big fan of Rus’ since I read Paddy on the Hardwood.”
—Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education
“Rus Bradburd is right on time with this takedown of college sports money mania at American universities. Big Time is provocative, thought-provoking, and hilarious.”
—Jesse Washington, ESPN – Andscape, co-author of “I Came As a Shadow.“
