Women and Children First Stories

Francine Prose

eBook - 2013

“Reading [this book] 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, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres). The twelve “meticulously observed” stories of Women and Children First showcase New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Francine Prose at her finest—offering a glimpse into the lives of men and women searching for connection and meaning in a world that often seems pre-programmed for absurdity (The New York Times). An adult daughter struggling to understand her father’s newfound Hasidic faith, an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New C...onsciousness Academy, a French literature professor who’s begun to fear Madame Bovary, and a young woman seeking direction from a...

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Published
Open Road Media
Language
English
Main Author
Francine Prose
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ISBN9781480445369
ASINB00EZEXA9K
Release Date9/24/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781480445079
Release Date9/24/2013