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Plot Summary of Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys
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Regan(Harper), 2004, 24.95, 298 pp.
ISBN: 0060730315

Nearing thirty, Hollywood studio attorney Cassandra French constantly grades herself on six courses: Personality, Looks, Physical health, Mental health, Career, and Relationships. Her scores will vary in the first five courses depending on her situation, but she is a drop out when it comes to relationships as she has found men to be shallow and self indulged when they are sober; when males are drunk they become obnoxiously shallow and self indulged.

Tired of dating groping alcoholics, Cassandra has a good time attending a baseball game with Owen until the seventh inning stretch when beer consumption takes effect. Cassandra locks the drunken Owen in what she now calls her kennel. When he becomes an obedient canine, she brings him two companions, Alan and Daniel as students at her finishing school for changing slobbering male dogs into caring gentlemen. Movie star Jason Kelly takes Cassandra out, but she learns he is using her to sue her studio. Irate, Cassandra abducts him, but he is a moron unlike his three litter mates as he kills himself by electrocution.

Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar



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Tone of book? - humorous
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - late discovery that lover does bad
Crime & Police story Yes
Story of - kidnapping
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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