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| Original Title: | Blue Angel |
| ISBN: | 0060882034 (ISBN13: 9780060882037) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ted Swenson, Angela Argo |
| Setting: | Pennsylvania(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2000) |
Francine Prose
Paperback | Pages: 314 pages Rating: 3.35 | 3316 Users | 427 Reviews
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| Title | : | Blue Angel |
| Author | : | Francine Prose |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 314 pages |
| Published | : | February 28th 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published March 22nd 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction. Academic. Academia. Contemporary |
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It has been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England 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 risqué, 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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Ratings: 3.35 From 3316 Users | 427 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Blue Angel
This novel was a New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Award. These accolades prove the reverse of what you'd imagine: not that Blue Angel is a good read, or anything or literary merit, but that standards on the whole have fallen. This novel fails on so many levels, I felt insulted 150pgs in and angry by the end.The novel wants to be either a satirical critique of political correctness, and how its guilty-without-trial ethos of college-level sexual harassment is asprofessor likes student's novel. student likes praise from professor. professor and student make out. UH OHHHHHH SPAGHETTI-O
It took me two days to read this book and I feel like it's two days that I would like to demand the author give me back. If I'm not mistaken, this book was a National Book Award finalist and I would also like an opportunity to smack some of those judges around.The premise: an aging writer with a bad case of writer's block spends his days teaching sub-par students creative writing at an over-privileged liberal arts college in an out of the way small town. When a student with talent enters his
Don't you love train wrecks? Or, better question, who doesn't? This book is a train wreck, and in the best way.A failing, aging writer is forced to make a living as a professor, teaching creative writing to talentless snots at a small Vermont university. Said writer, who has a lovely, blameless wife, finds himself drawn to one of these students. Spoiler alert: it doesn't end well.We witness sexual humiliation, professional humiliation, the disintegration of a marriage, career, a man. What voyeur
This book was well written. Prose does a good job giving us a glimpse into academia and marriage. Even the scenes in the writing class were funny and interesting. I'll give her that. Prose is taking a satirical approach to try to make a point about today's air of politically correct gender relations. The college campus is overrun by ultra feminists who think all women are victims of men's phallocentric universe, led by the ultimate feminist witch professor. On the other hand, the main character
I thought this was a very entertaining read. Many of the complaints in other reviews center on the main character not being likable and the book not being laugh-out-loud funny. For me, the humor was there in Prose's sharp observations and exaggerations when it came to her characters and academia in general... so, more of an appreciative "HA!" every so often as opposed to a side-splitting, rolling- around-on-the-floor fit of laughter. I especially liked her examples of bad student writing, a lot
I was very torn on this book. I kept hearing echoes of "Oleanna" and "Disclosure" as I read. I mean, taking things that happen quite often - sexual harassment and sexual relationships between male professors and female students - and doing a bit of role reversal? How shocking, how transgressive, how...completely obnoxious. It's about as edgy as someone who shows more concern for the few men who might be falsely accused of rape than for the multitudes of women who are actually raped. Never mind
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