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Author:Francine Prose
1974: A Personal History
Author: Francine ProseISBN-10: 0063314096ISBN-13: 9780063314092Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2024Pages: 272Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2024 pg. 10Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024Publishers Weekly 04/08/2024Library Journal 05/01/2024 pg. 102- $27.99
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Author:Francine Prose
1974: A Personal History
Author: Francine ProseISBN-10: 0063386348ISBN-13: 9780063386341Publisher: Harper Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2024Pages: 368Format: PaperbackLarge Print- $34.00
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1974: A Personal History
"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism--uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony--give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s--the...- $41.99
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A Changed Man
"Francine Prose has a knack for getting to the heart of human nature. . . . We are allowed to enter the moral dilemmas of fascinating characters whose emotional lives are strung out by the same human frailties, secrets and insecurities we all share."...- $16.99
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Anne Frank LP: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
"A deeply felt reappraisal of the work and its global impact.... Prose] makes a persuasive argument for Anne Frank's literary genius." --New York Times Book Review In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her...- $24.99
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
"Prose's book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create." -- Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received...- $14.99
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Author:Francine Prose
Bigfoot Dreams
A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headlineThough she's written dispatches from across the globe--covering the Loch Ness monster, live dinosaurs, and the ever-enigmatic yeti--Vera Perl never leaves the offices of This Week, a supermarket tabloid covering the...- $21.99
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Blue Angel
The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose--now the major motion picture Submission "Screamingly funny ... Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials." --USA TodayIt has been years since Swenson, a...- $14.99
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Bullyville
My father was killed on 9/11.Everybody in town knows we lost him forever when the North Tower collapsed.What they don't know is that he was gone long before that day.What they don't know is that a scholarship to exclusive Baileywell Academy only made my...- $9.99
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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
"Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both." -- Boston Sunday GlobeIn Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work...- $14.99
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Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacyAuthor: Francine ProseISBN-10: 0300274157ISBN-13: 9780300274158Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2023Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.19h x 5.04w x 0.63d- $18.00
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley's paragon of horror vividly back to life--published to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous night of its creation. A towering...- $19.99
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Goldengrove
"With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief. . . . "[Goldengrove is] a moving meditation on how, out of the painful passing of innocence and youth, sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge." -- Los...- $13.99
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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
"In a style that is brisk, witty, richly detailed, and suffused with a wry subtlety, Prose offers an astonishingly accurate anatomy of the human mind."--ElleWriting with the elegance and humor that have brought her work international acclaim, bestselling author Francine Prose has created an...- $14.95
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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
In these two audacious novellas, Americans abroad find that losing themselves in another culture can be dangerousInvited to Prague's first annual Kafka conference to read from his play about the great Czech writer, a playwright named Landau finds himself upstaged by Jiri Krakauer, the...- $16.99
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Household Saints
This tale of a family in Little Italy is "a minor miracle . . . documenting the madness and the grace of God in everyday life" (Newsweek). On a 1950s September night so hot that the devout Catholics of Little Italy wonder if New...- $18.99
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Judah the Pious
In seventeenth-century Poland, a rabbi takes on the education of a kingThe Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community's lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown. Only one...- $18.99
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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of...- $26.99
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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of...- $16.99
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Mister Monkey
"Tender and artful . . . a gently spiritual celebration of life." --New York Times Book ReviewAcclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters...- $18.99
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My New American Life
"Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who's also a world-class storyteller."--Russell Banks Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusiveAmerican dream. Following her New York Times bestselling...- $17.99
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Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as...- $16.00
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Primitive People
Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its own hardshipsSimone has gotten used to living in fear. After years of dictatorship, Haiti has sunk into chaos, and death is ever present. But it isn't...- $16.99
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Reading Like a Writer
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.In "Reading Like a Writer," Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour...- $17.99
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries,...- $17.99
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The Glorious Ones
"Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers." --Gary ShteyngartThe Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe--there's Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; chattering Columbina; Pantalone the miser; and the wicked Brighella; all led by Flaminio Scala, the self-proclaimed most courageous...- $15.99
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros.In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing,...- $13.99
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The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott: The Library of Congress
This book is part of a completely new photography series, featuring The Library of Congress' internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs which provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second...- $12.95
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The Vixen
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times"No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to...- $16.99
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The Vixen
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times"No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to...- $27.99
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The Vixen
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times"No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to...- $25.99
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Titian's Pietro Aretino
An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian's most personal and revealing portraits. Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considerable...- $24.95
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What to Read and Why
In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen...- $20.99
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Women and Children First: Stories
Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday lifeIt's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales...- $18.99
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