Books by Francine Prose
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review 1: Francine Prose takes the reader on a wonderful journey through Paris during the 1930s. The protagonist ,Lou Villars, is an young woman, who ends up at The Chameleon Club. This club is known for its flamboyant shows and outrageous patrons. The reader learns about Lou's various e...
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review 1: I was first introduced to Francine Prose's work by reading the novel The Blue Angel. This prompted me to read several other works of hers and continue to grow my to-read list with her work. This book was just as a pleasure to read as the other novels. She always has a good sens...
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review 1: For all the words that have been spent on Anne Frank and her iconic diary in the decades since the Holocaust, only a few have addressed Anne the Writer, and this may the first time there have been enough to make up a book. Much has been written about Anne the Symbol and, later, A...
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review 1: Being familiar with The Turn of the Screw this modern YA retelling didn't contain any surprises as I knew how the story was likely to turn out but I still found it very creepy and strange. As Jack begins to descend into madness I was never quite sure if the ghosts he was seeing w...
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review 1: Ms. Prose (please, someone tell me if this amazing surname is a pseudonym or not)makes Lula, our Albanian protagonist who presently holds a green card after staying in the country when her visitor visa expires, a beautifully honest character. Readers get to walk the blurry meldin...
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review 1: It is interesting the effect of books such as 'Gone girl', 'Lovely Bones' etc have had in that when a book features a death in the early pages, you begin to immediately look for the angle, the secret killer, the mysterious element that will gradually be revealed. In 'Goldengrove'...
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review 1: Biographical only as necessary, this unique book takes Anne Frank's diary seriously as a literary work, telling about her life, her creative process and masterpiece, and the subsequent play, film, and use in schools. After all my reading about Anne Frank, I already was aware of m...
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review 1: A witty and elegantly written novel. This is the story of Lula, an illegal Albanian immigrant who is a born survivor with irresistible romantic cravings. The story focuses on her relationship with her new American friends (her employer Mister Stanley, his son Zeke and her lawyer ...