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The Peaceable Kingdom Francine Prose

The Peaceable Kingdom By Francine Prose

The Peaceable Kingdom by Francine Prose


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The Peaceable Kingdom Summary

The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories by Francine Prose

Eleven impeccably crafted, painfully hilarious tales of innocence lost and families in search of connection from the New York Times-bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle).

A reluctant trophy wife on her Italian honeymoon; a young woman in love with her sister's dead boyfriend; a lonely puppeteer flirting with the hostess of a children's party; a teenage girl traveling to Paris with her father and, unexpectedly, his young girlfriend. Francine Prose's characters inhabit a world of rich emotion and startling clarity, searching for connection in a world full of surprise and humor; they travel, love, break up, and start again. Even their animal companions-a gecko rescued from a wild party, a dog who bites a bride, a hamster who dies unexpectedly and sends a family on a journey to give it a proper funeral-shine with the emotional complexity and sly satire that make Prose's work such a joy to experience.

In this collection, the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist demonstrates the craft, humor, and piercing human insight that make her, in the words of Gary Shteyngart one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers.

The Peaceable Kingdom Reviews

A smartly observed, deftly written book of stories. -The New York Times
Prose has an amazing flair for depicting our cultural fallout. -Chicago Tribune

A highly talented writer [with] a marvelous ear for the inanities of contemporary dialogue. -Publishers Weekly

About Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of sixteen novels, including A Changed Man, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. A former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prose is a highly regarded critic and essayist, and has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities. She is a distinguished writer in residence at Bard College, and she lives in New York City.

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NLS9781480445468
9781480445468
1480445460
The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories by Francine Prose
New
Paperback
Open Road Media
2013-11-26
178
N/A
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