Moral judgement, art and social embarrassment are recurring pressures in Francine Prose’s novels and criticism. Blue Angel follows a creative-writing professor whose obsession with a student becomes professionally and personally destructive, while A Changed Man uses a former neo-Nazi and a Holocaust survivor to examine public redemption and private motive. Reading Like a Writer turns to nonfiction, using close attention to sentences, paragraphs and narrative choices as a guide to learning from literature. Prose’s fiction can be satirical, uncomfortable and psychologically exact, while her criticism is accessible and practical without becoming formulaic. The catalogue is best browsed alongside contemporary literary fiction, campus satire, moral comedy and books about reading and writing. Read more Less
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