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  • GOLDENGROVE
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    GOLDENGROVE
    FRANCINE PROSE
    "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 Angeles Times An emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York ...

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  • BIGFOOT DREAMS
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    BIGFOOT DREAMS
    FRANCINE PROSE
    From the "wonderfully quirky imagination" of the New York Times–bestselling author: A tabloid reporter is surprised to find magic in a mundane world ( The New York Times).   Vera Pearl is a staff writer for This Week, a supermarket tabloid which trades in the bizarre and the absurd—though rarely, if ever, the true. No one is better than Vera at imagining these weird, wild stori...

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  • THE GLORIOUS ONES
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    THE GLORIOUS ONES
    FRANCINE PROSE
    The story of a troupe of actors in seventeenth- century Italy, from "one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers" (Gary Shteyngart). The Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe of actors, traveling up and down the seventeenth-century Italian countryside performing commedia dell'arte for kings, for peasants, for anyone with coin. There is Armanda, the cheerful dwarf an...

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  • GUIDED TOURS OF HELL
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    GUIDED TOURS OF HELL
    FRANCINE PROSE
    An "irresistibly readable" pair of novellas skewering Americans abroad—by the New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist ( The New York Times Book Review).   "In a style that is bold, witty, richly detailed, and suffused with a wry subtlety," Francine Prose offers penetrating portraits of Americans in Europe who have brought all their baggage—ego, ambiti...

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  • HOUSEHOLD SAINTS
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    HOUSEHOLD SAINTS
    FRANCINE PROSE
    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 York City has slipped into hell, the butcher Joseph Santangelo invites his friends to play pinochle. At the end of a long, sweaty, boozy evening, hi...

    $229.00

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  • JUDAH THE PIOUS
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    JUDAH THE PIOUS
    FRANCINE PROSE
    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 none of the community's lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown. Only one man dares challenge the sov...

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  • THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
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    THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
    FRANCINE PROSE
    Eleven "impeccably crafted, painfully hilarious" tales of innocence lost and families in search of connection from the New York Times–bestselling author ( San Francisco Chronicle).   A reluctant trophy wife on her Italian honeymoon; a young woman in love with her sister's dead boyfriend; a lonely puppeteer flirting with the hostess of a children's party; a teenage girl travelin...

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  • WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
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    WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
    FRANCINE PROSE
    "Reading [this book] is like driving down the road with a companion who is so smart and funny and insightful that her conversation transforms the landscape" (Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres).   The twelve "meticulously observed" stories of Women and Children First showcase New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Francine...

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  • A CHANGED MAN
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    A CHANGED MAN
    FRANCINE PROSE
    "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."  — USA Today One spring afternoon, Vincent Nolan, a young neo-Nazi walks into the office of a human rights foundation headed by M...

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  • HUNTERS AND GATHERERS
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    HUNTERS AND GATHERERS
    FRANCINE PROSE
    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 a demeaning, woefully underpaid job as a fact-checker at frothy fashion magazine Mode and an unhappy relationship with an unrepentant jerk. But she stumbles upon an ...

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  • PRIMITIVE PEOPLE
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    PRIMITIVE PEOPLE
    FRANCINE PROSE
    A Haitian émigré’s exposure to shallow suburbanites is “social satire at its slyest and best” from the New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).   When the heartbroken Simone flees her native Haiti, her best option to start a new life is a quick paper marriage to a Brooklyn cab driver and a job as an underpaid caregiver to two spoiled young children in the small commu...

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  • THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
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    THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
    FRANCINE PROSE
    Eleven "impeccably crafted, painfully hilarious" tales of innocence lost and families in search of connection from the New York Times–bestselling author ( San Francisco Chronicle).   A reluctant trophy wife on her Italian honeymoon; a young woman in love with her sister's dead boyfriend; a lonely puppeteer flirting with the hostess of a children's party; a teenage girl travelin...

    $229.00

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