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The Lives of the Muses
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99All 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 great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional... more...
Blue Angel
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99It has been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all... more...
A Changed Man
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99What 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 guys like me"? As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do this,... more...
Caravaggio
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99?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 an enthralling account of the life and work of one of... more...
Reading Like a Writer
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Long 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 tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very... more...
Bullyville
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99My 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 mentor. So begins the worst year of his life. more...
Touch
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99What 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 rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved . . . the school, the parents, the... more...
Anne Frank
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. She described life... more...
Touch
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99What 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 rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved . . . the school, the parents, the lawyers.... more...
My New American Life
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99?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 dream. Following her New York Times bestselling... more...









