Francine Prose

• Mar-1974
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man, an early novel about a theater troupe in 17th century Italy, republished to coincide with the opening of a Broadway musical inspired by the book

The Glori...

• 1977
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• May-1981
• / Literary
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"A marvelous, lovable novel."
Joyce Maynard
New York's Little Italy in the 1950s provides the setting for the extraordinary tale of the Santangelos. There is Joseph, a butcher who cheats at pinochle, only to find the deck stacked in unexpected ...

• Jan-1983
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• Apr-1986
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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 W...

• Feb-1988
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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 ...

• Apr-1992
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After fleeing the chaos and violence of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Simone takes a position in a home in the Hudson Valley, where she observes the barbaric rituals that pass for social and family life. Reprint....

• Sep-1993
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When their seemingly perfect lives begin to unravel because their children, marriages, and work no longer satisfy them, secrets are revealed, birthday parties and weddings take unexpected turns, and pets become the tool of conflict, in a cleverly cra...

• Aug-1995
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Hunters and Gatherers, Francine Prose's withering look at the New Age, is a novel about men and women, power and friendship, sex and competition, and who does what to whom. Reeling from the shock of a failed romance, Martha, a fact checker at a ch...

• Apr-1997
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• Jan-1998
• / Literary
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The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entir...

• Apr-2000
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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...

• May-2004
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• Mar-2005
• / Literary
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What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming gu...

• Sep-2005
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Every Sunday the people of Leipzig marvel at Leopold's amazing tales about wondrous things -- like the green gorilla governor in the galaxy of Gelato and the lizard ladies in the land of Lusitana. For generations everyone has believed his stories ...

• Sep-2007
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My father was killed on 9/11. When eighth grader Bart Rangely is granted a "mercy" scholarship to an elite private school after his father is killed in the North Tower, doors should have opened. Instead, he is terrorized and bullied by his own me...

• Sep-2008
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After the sudden death of her beloved older sister, thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to grope toward understanding, she falls into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Meet Roy. (He loves sweet potatoes.)

Meet the rhinos. (So do they. Uh-oh!)

Rhinos are on the loose. . . . Look out! Look out!

The rhinos want the sweet potatoes. The villagers want the sweet potatoes, too. That spells t...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Meet Roy. (He loves sweet potatoes.)

Meet the rhinos. (So do they. Uh-oh!)

Rhinos are on the loose. . . . Look out! Look out!

The rhinos want the sweet potatoes. The villagers want the sweet potatoes, too. That spells trouble. Ca...

• Jun-2009
• / Literary
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What really happened at the back of the bus? Did they, or didn't they? Did she, or didn't she? Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard--something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match, and the...

• May-2011
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Lula, a twenty-six-year-old Albanian woman living surreptitiously in New York City on an expiring tourist visa, hopes to make a better life for herself in America. When she lands a job as caretaker to Zeke, a rebellious high school senior in suburban...

• Sep-2012
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A dark house. An isolated island. Strange dreams and even stranger visions . . . Jack is spending the summer on a private island far from modern conveniences. No Wi-Fi, no cell service, no one else on the island but a housekeeper and the ...

• Apr-2014
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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...

• Apr-2016
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A short story by Francine Prose from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.‘The Mirror’ boldly imagines Jane Eyre’s married life after the novel ends.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Marrie...

• Oct-2016
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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 off-off-off-off Broadway children's music...

• Jul-2021
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Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execu...

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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A novel of a Polish king and a rebellious rabbi, “full of sudden delights and mocking humor” (The New York Times).
 The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and ...