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Food and Booze - A Tin House Literary Feast by Michelle Wildgen; Francine Prose; Steve Almond
$36.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast celebrates seven years of the dazzling writing and delicious recipes of Tin House magazine's Readable Feast and Blithe Spirits departments. Literature and gastronomy converge in an idiosyncratic survey of everything from lotus fruit, elk, and absinthe to brea ...Show more
Gluttony by Francine Prose
$23.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control - a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In "Gluttony", Francine Prose serves up a marvelous ba ...Show more
Goldengrove: A Novel by Francine Prose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, thirteenâÃÂÃÂyearâÃÂÃÂold Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clari ...Show more
Lives of the Muses : Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
An exploration of the complex relationship between artists and their muses profiles nine women, including Alice Liddell, who inspired Lewis Carroll; ballerina Suzanne Farrell, for her impact on George Ballanchine; and Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itselfParis in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, wh ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: good
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of ...Show more
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical.Mister Monkey-a screwball children's musical about ...Show more
Mister Monkey: A Novel by Francine Prose
$44.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey-a screwball children's musical abou ...Show more
Nothing by Henry Green; Francine Prose (Introduction by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Years ago, Jane Weatherby had a torrid affair with John Pomfret, the husband of her best friend. Divorces ensued. World War II happened. Prewar partying gave way to postwar austerity, and Jane and John's now-grown children, Philip and Mary, both as serious and sober as their parents were not, seem earne ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$43.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Jewish Lives
One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown galle ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$28.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more