Goldengrove - Softcover

Prose, Francine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060560029 ISBN 13: 9780060560027

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: September. 2009 Pages: 288 in Publisher: Harper Perennial After the sudden death of her beloved older sister. Thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to grope toward understanding . she falls into a seductive. dangerous relationship with her sister's boyfriend. Over one haunted summer. Nico faces that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them as she experiences the mystery of loss and recovery. Still. for all the darkness at its heart. Goldengrove is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of adolescence.

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Review:

"Insightful, lyrical... "Goldengrove" is beautifully and simply written...a moving portrait of the search for identity through a landscape of pain and loss."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A poignant account of growing up amid sorrow...a tender and moving story of adolescent love."--Hartford Courant

"Prose creates characters with real flaws that make the reader both love and hate them. It is easy to put oneself in the position of any of the players..."--Deseret Morning News

"With perfect pitch and no trace of sentimentality, Prose . . . lands on the precise emotional key for this novel . . . allowing humor and compassion to seep through the cracks of an otherwise dark tale."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Deeply touching and absorbing..."--Publishers Weekly

"Prose locates the life force that gives her narrator the quirky, irreverent but undeniable sound of a survivor. . . . Prose is tremendously skilled."--Chicago Tribune

"Prose holds up a mirror to grief and family life we can't look away from, revealing their truths on page after page, in beautifully crafted writing."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Arguably, "Goldengrove" is her best book yet."--Seattle Times

"Prose's skillful rendering of the human ability to accept hard truths and move on is a poignant lesson for us all."--Miami Herald

"With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief...Prose exquisitely renders her characters' grief and bafflement."--Los Angeles Times

Book Description:

'An elegiac farewell to the golden groves of childhood, a slim, sad coming-of-age tale in the great tradition of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding or even Salinger's Catcher in the Rye... Prose modulates beautifully from acute grief to a more ambient tristesse, littering her tale with sharp observations about the way that loss punctuates the everyday for Nico and her distraught parents.' Sarah Churchwell, Guardian 'Books of the Year'

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060560029
• ISBN 13: 9780060560027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290