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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)

Blue Angel

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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I loved this book, thought it was a very witty academic satire and fun spoof on students and terrible writing. To me the central joke is that the "brilliant" student is also a terrible writer-- the excerpts we read of her novel are cliches of goth/riot grrrl anomie, with the lurking menace and squalor and minimalism and repulsive/erotic imagery. (Her name "Argo(t)" suggests this quality of subculture chic and slang). Plus hello she's writing about a student attracted to her male teacher, FOR her

professor likes student's novel. student likes praise from professor. professor and student make out. UH OHHHHHH SPAGHETTI-O

Midlife crisis is a bitch. This glorious satire of the sexual politics in the ever increasingly politically correct society, particularly within the microcosmos of the tiny liberal arts college, is about that very specific kind of self destruction and reckless endangerment of a perfectly comfortable life in the most idiotic way possible. I've read Prose before, she impressed me then and has done so now. Suppose with a surname like that one ought to be able to churn out some well put together

I came upon this book by chance in half price books clearance section. Wow, I loved it.

This was a very interesting story but not great. It's the story of a college professor who becomes involved with one of his students, old story I know. But things get out of control in a big way. Everything is told from the professor's point of view, he is telling the story about what happens to him. The story has some very ironic/funny parts which had me laughing outloud at the way he was thinking. The writing was very good but it was just a story about this man and how his life was destroyed

I find the negative comments about this novel mystifying--it's a brilliant satire, and was deservedly nominated for a National Book Award (a prize rarely given to comic novels or satires). I suspect that the lack of suspense, the reader's foreknowledge that certain things will happen blunts their pleasure in Prose's wonderful writing and the insight she has into each of her characters, and the affectionate but acerbic picture of life in a small, somewhat pretentious and second rate college. But