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1st Books Library
October 2008
On Sale: October 8, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0061711349
EAN: 9780061711343
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At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new
novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden
loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift
toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico
is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity,
falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her
sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing
moment when children realize their parents can no longer
help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and
place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the
darkness at the novel's heart, the narrative itself is
radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the
restless sexual tension of teenage life. Goldengrove takes its place among the great novels of
adolescence, beside Henry James's The Awkward Age and L. P.
Hartley's The Go-Between.
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