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Title: manipulative characters, manipulative author
Review: The book is extremely readable and descriptive, which serves to make this manipulative novel all the more infuriating. It is obvious that Prose has issues towards academia and, more precisely, men in positions of power within. I have never encountered a central character so deliberately and antagonizingly destroyed. The manipulation with which the young girl employs to tear down this professor is topped only by the author herself, in setting up and then pulling the rug from under the reader. Francine Prose IS Angela Argo, an alter-ego to slay her dragon. I regret being taken along as a witness.
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