The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today
It’s been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It’s been even longer since … creative writing program, has published a novel. It’s been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today’s academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political correctness.
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As someone who have been both a student and an author/professor in writing workshops, I found several of the descriptions both fascinating and disappointing. If in fact Francine Prose’s descriptions are representative of the state of creative writing programs today, then they have truly fallen on hard times. While I had encountered the occasional …
Liked it, but the ending of this satire almost gilds the lily with its repetition of what the :hero has thought all along and allusions to Bambi and for whom the bells toll. It’s the final blow to happy endings.
Brilliant. Entertaining. Original. Humorous. Erotic (subtle, not pornographic)
Didn’t want it to end. Author and story are prizes. Treat yourself.
Eh.
Lazy, stereotypical characters, a whiny narrator, just a really inept attempt at satirizing liberal arts college life. Don’t waste your time when there are so many other books actually worth spending tome with
Not a book I could recommend. It was way to predictable, The only thing that made me continue to read was to see if what I thought was going to happen really did happen. It did.
While well-written and timely, I found this book painful to read. The main character’s obliviousness to the way an educator should behave and the lack of any explanation for his adversary’s actions aside from it being a knee-jerk response to probably unintended abuse of power made the whole book an embarrassing ordeal to be endured.