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Goldengrove by Francine Prose

Goldengrove

 Launch Media

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  • ABOUT Francine Prose

    Hailed by Larry McMurtry as “one of our finest writers,” Francine Prose is the author of twelve novels, including Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award. Her nonfiction book, Reading Like a Writer (2006), was a New York Times bestseller. Her stories, reviews and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Observer, The Yale Review, The New Republic, and numerous other publications.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 1, 2008.

A novel from the perceptive, award-winning author of Blue Angel, A Changed Man, and Hunters and Gatherers, among others, is always cause for celebration. Goldengrove is a story of the heart—an exploration of tragedy and redemption as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl who gets pitched headlong into adulthood during the course of one haunted summer.

Generously sponsored by Gilda and Henry Buchbinder.

Above: Photograph by SeppVei.

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