Francine Prose: 1974
1974
Buch
- A Personal History
- HarperCollins, 06/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780063314092
- Bestellnummer: 11721830
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 210 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.6.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism--uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony--give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s--the decade, as she memorably puts it, when American youth realized that the changes that seemed possible in the '60s weren't going to happen. A fascinating and ultimately wrenching book."--Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six MillionThe first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.
During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers. The narrative is framed around the nights she spent with Russo driving manically around San Francisco, listening to his stories--and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship in New York.
What happens to them mirrors the events and preoccupations of that historical moment: the Vietnam war, drugs, women's liberation, the Patty Hearst kidnapping. At once heartfelt and ironic, funny and sad, personal and political, 1974 provides an insightful look at how Francine Prose became a writer and artist during a time when the country, too, was shaping its identity.
Biografie
Francine Prose, geboren 1947, lebt in New York. Sie ist Redakteurin von Harper's Magazine, schreibt regelmäßig für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften und unterrichtet creative writing u.a. an der John Hopkins Universität. Bisher veröffentlichte sie mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten. Francine Prose wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen und Stipendien ausgezeichnet.![Francine Prose: 1974, Buch](https://lesen.de/image/w468/front/0/9780063314092.jpg)
Francine Prose
1974
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