"Reading [this book] is like driving down the road with a companion who is so smart and funny and insightful that her conversation transforms the landscape" (Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres).
The twelve "meticulously observed" stories of Women and Children First showcase New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Francine Prose at her finest-offering a glimpse into the lives of men and women searching for connection and meaning in a world that often seems pre-programmed for absurdity (The New York Times).
An adult daughter struggling to understand her father's newfound Hasidic faith, an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, a French literature professor who's begun to fear Madame Bovary, and a young woman seeking direction from a Tibetan master in the company of neurotic, overeager followers-these are the achingly, hilariously real people who inhabit these "wise and witty" stories (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
- ISBN10 0060507284
- ISBN13 9780060507282
- Publish Date 13 December 2013 (first published 12 February 1988)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harper Perennial
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English