The Curve A Novel Author:Jeremy Blachman, Cameron Stracher The students at Manhattan Law School, comprised of a series of maze-like and decrepit old buildings on the edge of the Gowanus Canal, are geographically-challenged and mad as hell ? in debt up to their eyeballs and fighting over the few legal jobs left for those far outside the Ivy League. — Our hero, Adam Wright, is a newly minted professor with... more » high hopes and low expectations. But nothing has prepared him for a classroom of digitally distracted students, a rebellion of grade grubbers, a Law Journal staff at the helm of a school-wide ?Pay for an A? scam, and a corrupt administration that runs the school as though it was a feudal oligopoly. Adam regrets leaving his comfy Manhattan corporate law firm for the wilds of academia, until he finds an ally in the brilliant, fetching, and National Book Award-nominated Laura Stapleton.
Now the two professors may just have to save legal education ? or join their students in the unemployment line?or worse.
With its colorful cast of eccentrics and law school misfits, a satirical plot that ? without too much of a stretch ? could be ripped from the headlines, and a proven author duo with strong marketing platforms and even better international media book reviews (see below), The Curve 1) continues Ankerwycke?s trend of publishing high quality/highly readable legal fiction with an edge, 2) further broadens our appeal to the law school/young lawyer market, and 3) demonstrates yet again that Ankerwycke can become (and is becoming) the go-to publishing house for established and first-time authors of legal fiction.
The Curve is a highly entertaining and deeply ironic novel that satirizes the current state of legal education and reads like a cross of Dangerous Minds and The Paper Chase.« less