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1974: A Personal History

By Francine Prose
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By Francine Prose
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From one of the most respected writers around, this juicy and insightful read is the first time Francine Prose has written so extensively about her own life. Set in the endlessly fascinating 60s and 70s, this is the indelible portrait of an emerging artist at an uncertain time.

“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 ultimatel...

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