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It’s one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor who’s begun to fear Madame Bovary. Prose’s characters are lost, frightened, and alone—and far more like us than we might care to admit.
It’s one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor who’s begun to fear Madame Bovary. Prose’s characters are lost, frightened, and alone—and far more like us than we might care to admit.
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About the Author:
Francine Prose is the author of sixteen novels, including A Changed Man, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. A former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prose is a highly regarded critic and essayist, and has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities. She is a distinguished writer in residence at Bard College, and she lives in New York City.
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“Meticulously observed.” —The New York Times
“Reading Women and Children First is like driving down the road with a companion who is so smart and funny and insightful that her conversation transforms the landscape.” —Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres
“Wise and witty.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Reading Women and Children First is like driving down the road with a companion who is so smart and funny and insightful that her conversation transforms the landscape.” —Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres
“Wise and witty.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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- PublisherIvy Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0804104158
- ISBN 13 9780804104159
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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