1974 A Personal History

Francine Prose

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"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony—give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s—the decade, as she memorably puts it, when American youth realized that the changes that seemed possible in the '60s weren't going to happen. A fascinating and ultimately wrenching book."—Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six MillionThe first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activi...st Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers—and the year when our country changed.During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and... more