Blue Angel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749005979 (0749005971)
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
American Fiction,
Academia,
Campus
After listening to an interview with the author on Fresh Air on NPR I checked the book out of the library. I liked it a lot when I read it but in retrospect I'm not sure how good it was. Fairly predictable story but superb writing. To be perfectly fair I should reread it as I read it 12 years ago.
This was a quick and easy read, and for the first half of the book, I really quite liked it. I thought the language was very good, most of the characters interesting, and the story was engaging. But something happened along the line, where it just turned sour for me. It was as if the novel tried to ...