Goldengrove (Hardcover)

A Novel

By Francine Prose

Harper, 9780066214115, 288pp.

Publication Date: September 16, 2008

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)

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October 2008 Indie Next List

“What might have been a mournful story about a young girl's isolation and grief after the death of her sister becomes an uplifting portrait of love, survival, and coming of age. Prose's gorgeous writing and plotting make this an affecting and memorable novel.”
— Jeanne Regentin, Between the Covers, Harbor Springs, MI
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Description

Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful coming-of-age work is radiant with the possibility of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.


About the Author

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction, including 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, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she 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 lives in New York City.



Praise For Goldengrove: A Novel…

“With perfect pitch and no trace of sentimentality, Prose . . . lands on the precise emotional key for this novel . . . allowing humor and compassion to seep through the cracks of an otherwise dark tale.”
— 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)