Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe will host a reading and book signing by author Francine Prose on May 8th at 7:00 pm.
Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer.
Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the Fall of 2007. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She has served as the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.
Prose meant to write a nonfiction book about Hungarian photographer George Brassai, but it turned into this novel. At its tumultuous heart is the Chameleon Club, a shadowy jazz venue that attracts notorious cross-dressing lesbian Lou Villars, Hungarian photographer Gabor Tsenyi, upper-crust art patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol, and sharp-tongued American novelist Lionel Maine.
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