This book presents an 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, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of ...
Nico and Margaret have grown up with their ex-hippie parents in an isolated New England town on the shores of placid Mirror Lake. Nico, thirteen, is still an adolescent, small and pudgy, trying her best to grow up to be like her sister. Margaret, four years older, is vibrant and beautiful, a blossoming jazz singer with cookie-scented skin-born, as ...
Intrigued by the idea of what happens to radically tattooed skinheads when they get older, Francine Prose created the character of neo-Nazi Vincent Nolan, age 32, who "repents," goes to work for a foundation, and finds himself becoming famous as a do-gooder who wants to "keep guys like me from becoming guys like me." Not only Vincent, but the ...
This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus "Mrs. Dalloway's Party," and numerous journal entries and letters by Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing.
As part of the Seven Deadly Sins series, Francine Prose turns her attention to gluttony, an exploration that encompasses fast food, gourmandism, obesity, anorexia, and society's current equation of thinness with beauty.
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.
Francine Prose writes a YA novel about the aftermath of a Columbine-like shooting in a nearby high school, which is suddenly overtaken by grief counselors, dress codes, bans on everything from cell phones to certain words, and the sudden disappearance of students considered potential troublemakers. When even their parents comply with the ...
Novelist and critic Francine Prose chooses nine women and writes about how each has inspired a notable artist. They include Alice Liddell (and Lewis Carroll), Yoko Ono (and John Lennon), and Hester Thrale (and Samuel Johnson). A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Not long after 9/11, novelist Francine Prose spent a month in Sicily, where she encountered a violent but vibrant society that celebrates life and all it has to offer even as it has learned to live with death. In this brief volume, she describes her experiences--which included, of course, plenty of good Sicilian comfort food as well as insights ...
This year's volume, featuring 17 new stories selected by award-winning novelist John Casey, continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers.
A creative-writing professor enmeshed in his own midlife crisis becomes obsessed with one of his students: a pierced, punky girl named Angela who, against all logic, turns out to be a good writer. As her hero copes with troubles ranging from marital to professional, Francine Prose's satirical novel of academia surveys campus life with a humorous ...
This story is a blend of two Jewish folktales. Leah and Chonon are fated to be together based on the legend which says that 40 days before a baby is born the angels decide whom that baby will marry. Leah's parents, unaware of the angelic plan, want their daughter to marry Benya, the most powerful man in town. Will the angels be able to ensure ...
This collection includes works by the fictional, the well-known (Anne of Cleves, Anne Sexton), and the utterly unknown, including a letter the editor found on the sidewalk.
Francine Prose provides an introduction to this collection of imaginative Catskills dwellings, which include rustic cabins, modernist architectural statements, and Victorian classics. There is a generous selection of color photographs and fascinating information about not only the houses and what they contain, but the people who live there.
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. Instead, he is terrorized and bullied by his own mentor. So begins the worst year of his life.
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 attic. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling, intimate, and important documents of modern history ...
Set in vibrant, multicultural Miami, this absorbing debut collection of short stories captures the international hub city in all its roiling guises, from the opulence of South Beach to the ferocity of Little Havana.
The most revealing look at breasts. Photographs of breasts are everywhere: in museums, on book covers, in fashion ads, and on posters. Alluring symbols of womanhood, breasts have fascinated generations of image makers. Here, for the first time between two covers, is the breast in photography: the titillating breast, the maternal breast, the aging ...
Based on an Atlantic Monthly column, this lively guide steers writers through prickly grammatical questions and the nuances of language. Part scholarly analysis, part style manual, the book illuminates specific usage errors, determines why these problems exist, and suggests ways to correct them.
Both of these novellas by Francine Prose are about Americans in Europe. Innocents abroad? Not exactly. In GUIDED TOURS OF HELL, Landau, a New York City playwright (and not a very successful one), travels to Prague for a Kafka conference and develops a combination of hatred and envy for a poet in the group, Jiri Krakauer, who is not only a ...
With acerbic wit, Francine Prose presents Martha, a fact-checker at a Manhattan fashion magazine and recovering romantic, who seeks solace among a group of devotees of an ancient matriarchal goddess. A connection with Isis Moonwagon, a New Age priestess, causes Martha to follow the Goddess-worshipers from the beaches of Fire Island to the Arizona ...
Francine Prose's ninth book is about a most unusual Haitian au pair and the wacky upstate New York family for whom she works. The question, of course, is which is more "primitive"--the cruel and violent island Simone has left behind, or the new world she is immersed in on the Hudson River. Prose can always be counted on for an energetically ...
Many of these critically acclaimed stories are concerned with death, or at least with life's very dark side. A teenager encounters her boyfriend on a trip to Paris and is disastrously disillusioned. A woman in Italy on her honeymoon realizes she will never be able to live up to her husband's idealism. Another woman dies when she takes a sip of ...
The Glorious Ones travel the length and breadth of seventeenth-century Italy, playing commedia dell'arte in the streets and palaces with equal vigor. Founded by the ingenious madman Flamino Scala, the small company of players endures kidnappings and passionate affairs, cabals, riots, disgrace--all manner of triumph and hardship. Pantalone the ...
Something happened in the last row of the school bus--something involving Maisie and her three friends, all boys. But everyone has a different version of what that something is. An award-winning author pens a stunning novel about events that can destroy friendships forever.
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