
Goldengrove
A Novel
Hardcover
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (7/4/2016)
Paperback (9/8/2009)
Paperback, Large Print (9/16/2008)
CD-Audio (9/16/2008)
Description
Praise For Goldengrove: A Novel…
— San Francisco Chronicle
“Ms. Prose is perceptive. . . . Her modest-sounding book turns out to be beautifully wrought.... and yields an unexpectedly rich, tart, eye-opening sense of Nico’s world.”
— New York Times
“With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief...Prose exquisitely renders her characters’ grief and bafflement.”
— Los Angeles Times
“Arguably, “Goldengrove” is her best book yet.”
— Seattle Times
“Prose locates the life force that gives her narrator the quirky, irreverent but undeniable sound of a survivor. . . . Prose is tremendously skilled.”
— Chicago Tribune
“Francine Prose’s new novel is a quiet, clear-eyed, sun-dappled eulogy to lost youth, and a youth lost. . . . [Prose is ] a keen chronicler of human emotion.”
— Elle
“A page-turner, thanks to its wholly identifiable, and perfectly flawed, young heroine. A-”
— Entertainment Weekly
“A beautiful narrative that defines resilience as the sometimes heartbreaking act of simply living”
— Redbook Magazine
“A poignant account of growing up amid sorrow...a tender and moving story of adolescent love.”
— Hartford Courant
“Prose holds up a mirror to grief and family life we can’t look away from, revealing their truths on page after page, in beautifully crafted writing.”
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Prose’s skillful rendering of the human ability to accept hard truths and move on is a poignant lesson for us all.”
— Miami Herald
“Insightful, lyrical... “Goldengrove” is beautifully and simply written...a moving portrait of the search for identity through a landscape of pain and loss.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Beautifully crafted...perhaps her most emotionally satisfying novel.”
— Christian Science Monitor
“An exploration of the fragility of adolescent identity and the perilous undertow of grief”
— O magazine
“Prose creates characters with real flaws that make the reader both love and hate them. It is easy to put oneself in the position of any of the players...”
— Deseret Morning News
“Deeply touching and absorbing...”
— Publishers Weekly
“...emotionally authentic...a ravishing novel of the mystery of death and life’s assertion.”
— Booklist (starred review)
Harper, 9780066214115, 288pp.
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
About the Author
Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, the highly acclaimed Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.