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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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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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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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Ratings: 3.35 From 3316 Users | 427 Reviews

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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

I am struggling to write a review of this book: it is a satire of political correctness gone mad within the highly volatile environment that is a university campus. Having witnessed the kind of witch hunt described in this novel first hand, I cringed more than I would have if I hadn't been a direct to witness to how broken the academic system is. I tried to just focus on the book, and not how reminiscent the story was of things I've been privy to, but it obviously tainted my appreciation of this

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

Despite Proses professional writing and how little seems to have changed since 2000 (or was Prose unusually prescient?), the novel covers well-trodden ground and is based on a relationship that simply wasnt very interesting, at least to me. I read most of it, but couldnt make it to the end.

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

Wow. This book disrespects the noble endeavor of teaching fiction, not to mention (I can only presume) the roilingly conflicted relationships teachers may have with their most alluring students . . . But first in this book's favor I should say that it's snappy (if never LOL) and very well dramatized. The human beings could probably seem sort of more like human beings, instead of cartoonish renditions of stereotypically cartoonish character types (frustrated/blocked writing teacher, bestudded

On the one hand: very entertaining, breezy, fast-paced, witty, engrossing. On the other hand: almost self-parodically stereotypical "comedic lit-fic" plot about a creative writing professor with writer's block having a midlife crisis and getting involved with a younger woman. Seems like it wants to "tackle" culture-war topics about "political correctness," university responses to sexual harassment on campus, etc., but doesn't take any real stands one way or the other, and this element ends up