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Francine Prose
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art
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An exploration of the complex relationship between artists and their muses profiles nine women, including Alice Liddell, who inspired Lewis Carroll; ballerina Suzanne Farrell, for her impact on George Ballanchine…
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"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…
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A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
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Mary Weatherford: The Flaying of Marsyas documents an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Weatherford, which were presented in 2022 at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, to coincide with…
Shirley Jackson
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness…
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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…
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Francine Prose (Translators)
In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam…
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do…
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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…
These bright tales display Prose’s special gift for revealing the mysteries at the heart of contemporary life, but beneath their surface they deal compassionately with that most modern discovery: nothing…
The New York Times-bestselling author takes on New Agers as one woman searches for meaning in this brilliantly satiric but … sweet-natured novel (Publishers Weekly).
Thirty-year-old Martha is stagnating in…
Stories of innocence lost, from a master observer of modern life The citizens of Prose’s realm are perpetually experiencing surprises. Nothing is reliable in their world, where dream vacations, weddings…
Young Simone flees the chaotic violence of Haiti only to land in a world no less brutal or bizarre–the world of upstate New York’s Porter family. Here, dead sheep swing…
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…
From a New York Times -bestselling author comes an emotionally powerful novel about love and loss.
The diary of Anne Frank, argues Prose, is as much a work of art as a historical record. Here, she tells the extraordinary story of the book that became a…
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s –
Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed-street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged-was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark…
A wonderful comic novel in which a bright, edgy reporter for a sleazy tabloidwakes up one morning to discover that one of her bogus stories has turned outtrue.
What really happened on the back of the bus? The boys tell one story; the girl tells another. Is anyone telling the truth?
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.
Two novellas– Guided Tours of Hell and Three Pigs in Five Days –examine the difficulty of feeling the appropriate emotions about the greatest historical tragedy or the smallest personal sorrow.
After eighth grader Bart Rangely is granted a mercy scholarship to an elite private school after his father is killed in the North Tower on 9/11, doors should have opened…
National Book Award finalist Prose renders the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity. 8-page color insert.
Deliciously risque, this bestseller by the author of Guided Tours of Hell offers a withering take on modern academic mores, a scathing tale of colliding cultures that vividly shows just…
and later, in the middle of a performance, has a shocking encounter with Adam, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role.Francine Prose’s effervescent comedy is told from the viewpoints of…
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an…
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 the author. She aims…
Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan.
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Masterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in America’s drug-addicted and media-driven culture.
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks…
Contemporary America is at its most hilarious and dreadful in this darkly humorous novel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusive American dream set in the charged aftermath of…
Presents an historically significant collection of photographs that provide a comprehensive view of American life from 1935 to 1944 during the Great Depression. This title also presents a visual record…
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…
Mavis Gallant
A hardcover edition of a collection of short stories by Mavis Gallant, with a preface by her (reprinted from the first edition of 1996), plus a new introduction by Francine…
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