Blue Angel, Francine Prose
Blue Angel, Francine Prose
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Blue Angel
A Novel

Author: Francine Prose

Narrator: Zach Villa

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/30/2018

Synopsis

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 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.

About Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised 1974: A Person History, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 24, 2020

Tale as old as time: teacher and student's amorous liaison. But the notes on THIS scandal are particularly exquisite. The mind of the disgraced professor is put out fully naked on the table, so let the anatomy session begin! The innards are salacious, for its pretty hard to find empathy with the sap......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle on February 15, 2018

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......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on June 03, 2018

Near the end of this story of a seductress and her feckless, hubristic seducee, there is a moment when the seducee—a teacher who has gone off the wire—gives up and doesn’t even try to defend himself, because the story has gotten so complex that saying anything simple seems impossible. It would feel......more

Goodreads review by Steve on February 01, 2014

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 pl......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on February 05, 2009

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

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