Francine Prose: 36 books
Gluttony
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous...
My New American Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
“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...
Better than Fiction 2
True adventures from 30 great fiction writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher,Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012's Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world's best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler.
Varied in place,...
by Francine Prose
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
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 and Charles Dickens...
Caravaggio
Painter of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“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 Globe
In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose (Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer) offers...
Peggy Guggenheim
The Shock of the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
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 Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown...
by Francine Prose
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment...
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
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 of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire...
Mister Monkey
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
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 musical.
Mister Monkey—a screwball children’s...
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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 of the tools and the...
The Peaceable Kingdom
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
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...
A Fork In The Road
Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road
2014 James Beard Award Nominee and 2014 Society of Travel Writers Foundation Thomas Lowell Travel Journalism Bronze Award Winner for Travel Book
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by Francine Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
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 two very peculiar children in his care. The first time...
The Lives of the Muses
Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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, she illuminates with...