the blue angel
If Swenson lets the subject of Angela's book drop now, he'll never get back to it again. "The novel this student's writing... it's hard to describe how good it is. To say that it's about a high school girl who has an affair with her teacher is hardly--""Well!" says Len. "No wonder you've got child abuse on the brain."
"No," Swenson says, "Trust me. It's not like that at all. The girl wants it to happen. She seduces him. You rarely see that written about, it's always the guy who's some kind of pervert, but in this case the girl.... It's like Lolita rewritten from Lolita's point of view."
"That's quite a claim," says Len.
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