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Goldengrove.
by Francine Prose
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0066214114
- ISBN 13
- 9780066214115
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY HarperCollins: Harper, 2008. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute a barely discernible reverse spine lean, else flawless. Binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows only the mildest rubbing; else flawless; price unclipped. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 275pp. Hardback with DJ. In Prose's deeply touching and absorbing 15th novel, narrator Nico, 13, comes upon Gerard Manley Hopkins's Spring and Fall (which opens Margaret, are you grieving/ Over Goldengrove unleaving?) in her father's upstate New York bookstore, also named Goldengrove. It's the summer after her adored older sister, Margaretpossessed of beauty, a lovely singing voice and a poetic naturecasually dove from a rowboat in a nearby lake and drowned. In emotive detail, Nico relates the subsequent events of that summer. Nico was a willing confidant and decoy in Margaret's clandestine romance with a high school classmate, Aaron, and Nico now finds that she and Aaron are drawn to each other in their mutual bereavement. Unhinged by grief, Nico's parents are distracted and careless in their oversight of Nico, and Nico is deep in perilous waters before she realizes that she is out of her depth. Prose eschews her familiar satiric mode. She fluidly maintains Nico's tender insights into the human condition as Nico comes to discover her own way of growing up and moving on.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 34503
- Title
- Goldengrove.
- Author
- Francine Prose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Ed; First Printing indicated.
- ISBN 10
- 0066214114
- ISBN 13
- 9780066214115
- Publisher
- HarperCollins: Harper,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2008.
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature; Contemporary Fiction; American Popular Fiction; Modern Fiction First Editions; Women's Fiction;
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