Francine Prose

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born

January 01, 1947 in The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, and her novel Blue Angel, a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is now teaching at Bard College.

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Average rating: 3.56 · 15,801 ratings · 2,825 reviews · 96 distinct works

	Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them 3.71 avg rating — 2,979 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Blue Angel 3.30 avg rating — 1,649 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Goldengrove 3.25 avg rating — 1,466 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	My rating:
	After 3.56 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Changed Man 3.29 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife 3.95 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	My New American Life 3.17 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Touch 2.92 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired 3.70 avg rating — 362 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Bullyville 2.91 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”
― Francine Prose, Goldengrove

tags: death , grief , loss , sad , sadness , sorrow

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“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”
― Francine Prose, Goldengrove

tags: grief , loss

32 people liked it

“People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.”
― Francine Prose, Goldengrove

18 people liked it

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