Goldengrove

Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful coming-of-age work is radiant with the possibility of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.

Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/08/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.34w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780060560027

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 127514 / Goldengrove


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 09/28/2009 pg. 67
New York Times Book Review 10/18/2009 pg. 24

About the Author
Prose, Francine: -

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, the highly acclaimed Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.