In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. But Anne Frank's diary, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as it is a historical record. Through close reading, she marvels at the teenage Frank's skillfully natural narrative voice, at her finely tuned dialogue and ability to turn living people into characters.Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife tells the extraordinary story of the book that became a force in the world. Along the way, Prose definitively establishes that Anne Frank was not an accidental author or a casual teenage chronicler but a writer of prodigious talent and ambition.
| Autor: | Prose Francine |
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| ISBN: | 9780061430800 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Harper Collins |
| Veröffentlicht: | 05.10.2010 |
| Untertitel: | The Book, The Life, The Afterlife |
| Schlagworte: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY GENOCIDE STUDIES: HOLOCAUST: NONFICTION HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY: Europe / Germany HISTORY: Social History LITERARY CRITICISM: Jewish LITERARY CRITICISM: Subjects & Themes / Historical Events |
Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.