Goldengrove
Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful...
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Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful coming-of-age work is radiant with the possibility of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060560027 (0060560029)
Publish date: September 8th 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 275
Edition language: English
So I'm a bit conflicted about this book. I'll give it that it has some really beautiful writing and imagery. The way certain things were described were just haunting and beautiful. If you're looking for a book about character development, and not so much about plot, you may like this book more ...
I have mixed feelings about this book. Some parts were great, some left me flat. The thing that bugs me is that they talk about cell phones and I think internet ( I read this a few months ago) and then at the end, it was decades later as in present tense. Well if this story happened a long time ago,...
13-year-old Nico was literally the last person to see her older sister Margaret alive. Margaret was a gifted singer and actress about to graduate from high school, and the girls were spending a lazy Sunday afternoon out on the lake in their family's rowboat. Margaret decided to dive from the boat in...
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