Francine Prose

Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life unsolved disappearance of a female college student....

Featuring 22 compelling personal-medical narratives, At the End of Life explores death, dying, and palliative care, and highlights current features, flaws, and advances in the healthcare system....

Simone has fled the chaotic violence of Port-au-Prince only to find herself in a world no less brutal or bizarre....

The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community’s lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown....

A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headline.....

The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex - their entire lives....

The Glorious Ones travel the length and breadth of seventeenth-century Italy, playing commedia dell'arte in the streets and palaces with equal vigor....

The setting is New York's Little Italy in the 1950's - a community closely knit by gossip and tradition. This is the story of an extraordinary family, the Santangelos....

With her trademark acerbic wit and compassion, Francine Prose offers a sharp-eyed consideration of how men and women differ in their pursuit - and avoidance - of power, sex, and competition....

Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture....

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy....