College Debate - A Novel by Sally Sallinger

Sally was the number one ranked college debater in europe, a minor celebrity within the tiny world of competitive debate. She quit after being assigned an argument about bosnian politics during a championship match held in belgrade. Sally said that making arguments as if they were detached from human experience had come to seem depressing and vaguely moral. Not long after she quit, she wrote an essay about college debate for the dublin review which first caught the attention of an agent who asked whether sally had written any fiction she could send over.