Vincent Nolan, a young neo-Nazi, walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060560034
What 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 details Format:Paperback Pages:421
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780749083731
One spring afternoon, a young neo-nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of the World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a Holocaust survivor...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061885440
In 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 from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years...more details Format:Paperback Pages:444
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061430794
With the understanding one great writer has for another, Prose deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of the text millions have come to know as "The Diary of a Young Girl...more details Format:Hardback Pages:336
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061430800
In 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 from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years...more details Format:Paperback Pages:322
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060882037
It 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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:314
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780749005801
It's been years since Swenson, a professor of creative writing at a small American college, has published a novel of his own. And it's been longer since one of his students has shown the faintest glimmer of talent. Enter Angela Argo: pierced...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060574987
"My 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...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:260
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060574970
"My 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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:260
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9781410406361
"My 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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:227
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780007230662
NBA finalist, Francine Prose takes on a great artist whose life was brief and paradoxical, more loathed in his own time than any modern artist since. This is a study of why revolutionary art can be reviled in its own time and revered in another. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's "Brief Lives"...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060575601
Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:149
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061768903
Francine Prose?s life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:149
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061669019
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061664588
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060560027
After the sudden death of her beloved older sister, thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to grope toward understanding...more details Format:Paperback Pages:275
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061711343
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780066214115
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations...more details Format:Hardback Pages:275
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060080853
The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060507275
The setting is New York's Little Italy in the 1950s -- a community closely knit by gossip and tradition. This is the story of an extraordinary family...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780374531980
Reeling from the shock of a failed romance, Martha, a fact checker at a chic fashion magazine, falls in with a group of New Age feminist goddess worshipers. She follows the group and their accident-prone leader...more details Format:Paperback Pages:260
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9781931788540
Though the sense of realism in German photographer Loretta Lux's striking portraits of children remains eerily intact, Lux does not strive to create faithful photographic representations of her young subjects. Instead...more details Format:Hardback Pages:88
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061713767
It is 2005, and Lula is waitressing illegally at La Changita, a hangout for free-spending young Wall Streeters, and sharing a tiny apartment with three other immigrant hopefuls in New York?s Alphabet City. An Albanian on an expiring tourist visa...more details Format:Hardback Pages:306
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061713798
Release Date: 08 May 2012 "Francine Prose is a world-class satirist who's also a world-class storyteller."--Russell Banks Francine Prose captures contemporary America at its most hilarious and dreadful in "My New American Life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
What are these barbaric rituals that pass for social and family life? Who are these fearsome creatures who linger in decaying mansions and at glittery malls...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061256561
In her entertaining and edifying "New York Times" bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060777050
This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:273
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060777043
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries...more details Format:Hardback Pages:273
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780792265351
"The whole history of Italy - and of much of Europe - seems to have been distilled, concentrated, and acted out on this singular island," writes Francine Prose of Sicily...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061493843
The Glorious Ones travel the length and breadth of seventeenth-century Italy, playing commedia dell'arte in the streets and palaces with equal vigor. Founded by the ingenious madman Flamino Scala...more details Format:Paperback Pages:175
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060555252
All 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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9780060754044
The inhabitants of Prose's Peaceable Kingdom are getting the surprises of their lives: a young woman on her honeymoon suddenly realizes that her ecologist husband will have to save the world without her...more details Format:Paperback Pages:231
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Francine Prose
ISBN:9788862081160
During a recent stint in Rome (on a Rome Prize Fellowship), photographer Tim Davis became drawn to the peculiar status of ancient ruins. "You are standing in a field in Italy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:106
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Richard Hughes;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780940322158
Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica...more details Format:Paperback Pages:296
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Ivy Compton-Burnett;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780940322646
A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Francine Prose;After Prose
ISBN:9780060080815
The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:336
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Sandra Bark;Francine Prose
ISBN:9781417713677
- This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose...more details
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William Trevor;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780143039624
aTo my mind Trevoras best novel and a very fine one.a aGraham Greene Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William TrevoraaIrelandas answer to Chekhova ("The Boston Globe") and aone of the best writers of our eraa ("The Washington Post")ato our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel...more details Format:Paperback Pages:207
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Anna Holmes;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780345465443
It's as old as time: the breakup letter. The kiss-off. The Dear John. The big adios. Simple in its premise, stunningly perfect in its effect. From Anne Boleyn to "Sex and the City" writer/producer Cindy Chupack...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Francine Prose;Einav Aviram
ISBN:9780060080754
Every Sunday the people of Leipzig marvel at Leopold's amazing tales about wondrous things -- like the green gorilla governor in the galaxy of Gelato and the lizard ladies in the land of Lusitana. For generations everyone has believed his stories were true. That is...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich;Francine Prose
ISBN:9781567923384
Graphic artists recognize genius when they see it, and most acknowledge that de Vicq's website and book, "Bembo's Zoo," was a milestone in creative design. In his new eff ort...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Gonzalo Barr;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780618658862
Set in vibrant, multicultural Miami, The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa is an absorbing debut collection of short stories from a gifted writer. Gonzalo Barr captures this international hub city in all its roiling guises...more details Format:Paperback Pages:190
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Virginia Woolf;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780151010448
This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:345
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Paul Bowles;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780061137037
Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, "The Spider's House" is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel...more details Format:Paperback Pages:406
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Barbara Wallraff;Francine Prose
ISBN:9780156011181
By the author of the Atlantic Monthly's highly popular column "Word Court," the most engaging grammar guide of our time, with all the authority of "Strunk" "and White" and all the fun of "Woe Is I...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Francine et al Prose
ISBN:9780500543559
From a still, rain-glazed alley in Rome to a mountain road careening through the Dolomites, from a moment of silent intimacy with the sculpture of David to a sun-baked street in Naples...more details Format:Hardback Pages:276
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PROSE FRANCINE
ISBN:9781904832416
Each volume in this brand new series, presents 50 striking images by an individual photographer from the Library of Congress' Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) collection...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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Virginia Woolf;Mark Prose FrancineHussey
ISBN:9780156030151
This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:378