Goldengrove : a novel

Resource Information

The work Goldengrove : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Goldengrove : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Francine Prose

Creator

• Prose, Francine, 1947-

Author

• Prose, Francine, 1947-

Subject

• Electronic books
• Erotic stories
• Grief -- Fiction
• Middle class families -- New England -- Fiction
• Adolescence -- Fiction
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Death -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans

Genre

• Fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

• Nico comes of age over the course of her thirteenth summer when her parents withdraw following the drowning death of her older sister, and she is left largely alone to deal with her own grief
• A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the darkness at the novel's heart, the narrative itself is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Interest level

UG

LC call number

PS3566.R68

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Reading level

4.7

Study program name

Accelerated Reader