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1	Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them more books like this by Francine Prose 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, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of ... see all copies from $3.73! new only from $3.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Goldengrove more books like this by Francine Prose Nico and Margaret have grown up with their ex-hippie parents in an isolated New England town on the shores of placid Mirror Lake. Nico, thirteen, is still an adolescent, small and pudgy, trying her best to grow up to be like her sister. Margaret, four years older, is vibrant and beautiful, a blossoming jazz singer with cookie-scented skin-born, as ... see all copies from $10.80! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	After more books like this by Francine Prose Francine Prose writes a YA novel about the aftermath of a Columbine-like shooting in a nearby high school, which is suddenly overtaken by grief counselors, dress codes, bans on everything from cell phones to certain words, and the sudden disappearance of students considered potential troublemakers. When even their parents comply with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired more books like this by Francine Prose 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, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Blue Angel more books like this by Francine Prose 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, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Household Saints more books like this by Francine Prose Out of the daily lives of women and the simplest of domestic chores, out of the streets, the meals, the smells of Little Italy and its community, closely knit by gossip and tradition, comes this imaginative tale of the Santangelos. The book has been made into a film by Jonathan Demme. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Mrs. Dalloway Reader more books like this by Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (Editor) 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 Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. see all copies from $2.38! new only from $4.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Changed Man more books like this by Francine Prose Intrigued by the idea of what happens to radically tattooed skinheads when they get older, Francine Prose created the character of neo-Nazi Vincent Nolan, age 32, who "repents," goes to work for a foundation, and finds himself becoming famous as a do-gooder who wants to "keep guys like me from becoming guys like me." Not only Vincent, but the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas more books like this by Francine Prose Both of these novellas by Francine Prose are about Americans in Europe. Innocents abroad? Not exactly. In GUIDED TOURS OF HELL, Landau, a New York City playwright (and not a very successful one), travels to Prague for a Kafka conference and develops a combination of hatred and envy for a poet in the group, Jiri Krakauer, who is not only a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Hunters and Gatherers more books like this by Francine Prose With acerbic wit, Francine Prose presents Martha, a fact-checker at a Manhattan fashion magazine and recovering romantic, who seeks solace among a group of devotees of an ancient matriarchal goddess. A connection with Isis Moonwagon, a New Age priestess, causes Martha to follow the Goddess-worshipers from the beaches of Fire Island to the Arizona ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Bullyville more books like this by Francine Prose After eighth grader Bart Rangely is granted a "mercy" scholarship to an elite private school after his father is killed in the North Tower on 9/11, doors should have opened. Instead, he is terrorized and bullied by his own mentor. So begins the worst year of his life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Best New American Voices more books like this by John Kulka (Editor), Natalie Danford (Editor), Francine Prose (Editor) Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Ana Menendez, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, Alix Ohlin, and John Murray: These are just some of the acclaimed writers whose early work has appeared in Best New American Voices since its launch in 2000. The 2005 edition features a new crop of promising stories selected by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sicilian Odyssey more books like this by Francine Prose "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, a place conquered in succession by the Greeks and Carthaginians, Romans, Goths, and Vandals, Byzantines, and Saracens, Normans, Swabians, the Spanish and French. In her travels ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Bigfoot dreams more books like this by Francine Prose FRIENDS AND LOVERS. ALONG WITH ONE OF THE FUNNIEST AND SMARTEST HEROINES OF RECENT FICTION WE SEE TO THE SERIOUS HEART OF A WORLD WHERE TABLOID HEADLINES --'ELIVIS IS ALIVE AND WELL ON MARS' -- ARE THE CLOSEST WE COME TO THE MARVELOUS AND HOPEFUL. SHARP, FUNNY, MOVING AND PROFOUND, 'BIGFOOT DREAMS' IS A NOVEL ABOUT LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE WORLD ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $97.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Catskills Country Style more books like this by Steve Gross, Sue Daley, Francine Prose (Introduction by) Francine Prose provides an introduction to this collection of imaginative Catskills dwellings, which include rustic cabins, modernist architectural statements, and Victorian classics. There is a generous selection of color photographs and fascinating information about not only the houses and what they contain, but the people who live there. see all copies from $5.96! new only from $5.96! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Master Breasts: Objectified, Aesthetisized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters . . . more books like this by Cha Atmaram H Simic, Francine Prose (Introduction by), Karen Finley (Contributions by) The most revealing look at breasts. Photographs of breasts are everywhere: in museums, on book covers, in fashion ads, and on posters. Alluring symbols of womanhood, breasts have fascinated generations of image makers. Here, for the first time between two covers, is the breast in photography: the titillating breast, the maternal breast, the aging ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
17	Judah the pious by Francine Prose see all copies from $3.53! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories: An more books like this by Sandra Bark (Editor), Francine Prose (Introduction by) - This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.- This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent scholars--including an Isaac Bashevis Singer ... see all copies from $4.26! new only from $29.95!
19 view cover	Traces: Stories more books like this by Ida Fink, Philip Boehm (Translator), Francine Prose (Translator) This collection of Ida Fink's short fiction includes her celebrated story "The End," an account of two young lovers in Poland during the German invasion in 1938. In this and 20 other stories, Fink--a Holocaust survivor herself--explores the way the Nazi extermination of the Jews impinged on the lives of ordinary people, often young women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.47! \| first editions
20 view cover	Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done more books like this by Barbara Wallraff, Francine Prose (Introduction by) By the author of "Atlantic Monthly's" highly popular column "Word Court" comes an engaging grammar guide for lovers of language, a national bestseller now in paperback. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Stories from Our Living Past more books like this by Francine Prose, Jules Harlow (Editor), Erika Weihs (Illustrator) Twenty-eight Jewish tales with morals, including "Daniel in the Lion's Den", "The King's Garden", and "The Goat that Made the Stars Sing". see all copies from $2.95!
22 view cover	Hell Hath No Fury: Womens Letters from the End of the Affair more books like this by Anna Holmes, Francine Prose (Foreword by) This collection includes works by the fictional, the well-known (Anne of Cleves, Anne Sexton), and the utterly unknown, including a letter the editor found on the sidewalk. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Primitive People more books like this by Francine Prose Francine Prose's ninth book is about a most unusual Haitian au pair and the wacky upstate New York family for whom she works. The question, of course, is which is more "primitive"--the cruel and violent island Simone has left behind, or the new world she is immersed in on the Hudson River. Prose can always be counted on for an energetically ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories more books like this by Francine Prose Many of these critically acclaimed stories are concerned with death, or at least with life's very dark side. A teenager encounters her boyfriend on a trip to Paris and is disastrously disillusioned. A woman in Italy on her honeymoon realizes she will never be able to live up to her husband's idealism. Another woman dies when she takes a sip of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Cousin Bette more books like this by Kathleen Raine (Translator), Honore de Balzac, Francine Prose (Introduction by) Balzac's heroine is a rejected spinster who brings down an aristocratic family. One of the last novels in his massive literary project, LA COMEDIE HUMAINE, COUSIN BETTE provides a grim view of human depravity and greed. On the novel's vast canvas, every class of society is portrayed, connected by the petty passions, loves, and hates that they all ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $7.74! \| SVS

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