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The Prose Of Adolescence, And Sudden Loss

Fresh Air
Published October 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM EDT

In Francine Prose's new novel, Goldengrove, a sister's sudden death leaves a young girl adrift. (Read an excerpt.) Prose is the author of 15 previous novels, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, as well as the nonfiction book Reading Like a Writer.

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