National Bestseller
An emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man
“With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor . . . [Goldengrove is] a moving meditation on how, out of the painful passing of innocence and youth, sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge.”
—Los Angeles Times
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- Harper Perennial
- Carton Qty: 64
- Selling Territory: W
- 100,000
- First Serial, Dramatic: International Creative Management; UK, Translation, Audio: Harper
- PUBLISHING HISTORY
- Harper (hc) (9780066214115)
- Subsidiary Rights: UK/Trans/Audio
Text: HarperCollins
- On Sale: 9/8/2009
- Fiction
- pb 9780060560027 $13.99 ($17.99)
- 288 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
- Model ISBN: 9780060560034
Changed Man, A
• Goldengrove hit the Denver Post and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists.
• Goldengrove was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
• Harper will simultaneously publish Prose's Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife in hardcover.
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
•New and Noteworthy Print Campaign
Marketing
•Academic Marketing
•Reading Group Promotion on BookClubGirl.com and in the Book Chatter e-Newsletter
•Online Outreach to Literary Websites and Blogs
•Featured at the National Council for Teachers of English Conference
Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger
Backlist
Goldengrove Unabridged CD
Francine Prose
- Audio
- 9780061664588
- Reader: Mamie Gummer
- Media: CDs
- 9/16/2008
- $39.95 ($42.95 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Goldengrove LP
Francine Prose
- Large Print
- 9780061669019
- 9/16/2008
- $24.95 ($26.95 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Glorious Ones
Francine Prose
- Trade PB
- 9780061493843
- 10/16/2007
- $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Reading Like a Writer Unabridged CD
Francine Prose
- Audio
- 9780061256561
- Reader: Nanette Savard
- Media: CDs
- 4/10/2007
- $34.95 ($41.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Reading Like a Writer
Francine Prose
- Trade PB
- 9780060777050
- 4/10/2007
- $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
A Changed Man CD Unabridged
Francine Prose
- Audio
- 9780060776510
- Reader: Eric Conger
- Media: CDs
- 3/1/2005
- $39.95 ($56.95 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Peaceable Kingdom
Francine Prose
- Trade PB
- 9780060754044
- 6/14/2005
- $12.95 ($16.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Lives of the Muses
Francine Prose
- Trade PB
- 9780060555252
- 10/7/2003
- $13.95 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Women and Children First
Francine Prose
- Trade PB
- 9780060507282
- 5/13/2003
- $12.95 ($16.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Household Saints
Francine Prose
- Trade PB
- 9780060507275
- 4/1/2003
- $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Also Available
Anne Frank
Francine Prose
- Hardcover
- 9780061430794
- 9/29/2009
- $24.99 ($32.99)
Anne Frank LP
Francine Prose
- Large Print
- 9780061885440
- 9/29/2009
- $24.99 ($32.99)
Extras
Quotes
"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
“Prose is most astute with her portrayal of the stormy currents of adolescent grief. . . . It’s also charged with an . . . element of eroticism, and here Prose is at her very best. . . . Nico’s voice, with its quirky mix of insight and gullibility, will stick in adults’ minds, and many younger readers will recognize that voice as their own.”
- Washington Post Book World
“Ms. Prose is perceptive. . . . Her modest-sounding book turns out to be beautifully wrought . . . and yields an unexpectedly rich, tart, eye-opening sense of Nico’s world.”
- New York Times
“With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief. . . . [Goldengrove is] a moving meditation on how, out of the painful passing of innocence and youth, sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge.”
- Los Angeles Times
“Prose . . . examines lovingly the steps by which life reasserts itself in a slow dance of grief, loneliness, despair and, finally, a willingness to try again. Arguably, Goldengrove is her best book yet.”
- Seattle Times
"Prose locates the life force that gives her narrator the quirky, irreverent but undeniable sound of a survivor. . . . Prose is tremendously skilled."
- Chicago Tribune
"Francine Prose's new novel is a quiet, clear-eyed, sun-dappled eulogy to lost youth, and a youth lost. . . . [Prose is ] a keen chronicler of human emotion."
- Elle
“At a time when too many writers, readers, and publishers seem afraid of lyricism—as if people who read don’t crave lovely writing—Prose forges the other way. Time and again in Goldengrove, a poetic image . . . illuminates a moment. . . . It’s a rare thing: a book to read for its metaphors and similes. Read it, too, for its turn from danger to light, from despair to a hard-won contentment.”
- Philadelphia Inquirer
"A page-turner, thanks to its wholly identifiable, and perfectly flawed, young heroine. A-"
- Entertainment Weekly
“Prose’s consistently complex and incisive narratives exhibit uncommon grace and authority, making each new publication an occasion for welcome. Goldengrove is no exception, offering readers the privilege of witnessing one girl’s journey to womanhood through the prism of profound loss, a young soul on its way to becoming older, and wise.”
- Boston Globe