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"No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . Her insights, the subtle ones and the two-by-fours, make me shake my head in despair, in surprise, in heartfelt agreement. The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending." -- New York Times Book Review "A rollicking trickster of a novel, wondrously funny and wickedly addictive." -- Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where''d You Go, Bernadette "Combining elements of mystery and romance, Prose''s novel is a sly indictment of Cold War paranoia." -- The New Yorker "In this wonderfully clear-sighted memoir Francine Prose catches a moment when idealism shifted and the world turned. 1974 is also a story about youth, risk and survival--a story women don''t tell often enough, perhaps. Wise, achieved, entirely satisfying." -- Anne Enright, author of The Wren, the Wren "Prose''s first memoir makes something dark and dizzying of a tumultuous decade." -- New York Magazine "Francine Prose''s sublime, haunting memoir shows us the Seventies in all its dizzying contradictions--the darkness and paranoia, the open roads and strange new connections. A world where some voices disintegrated, never to cohere again--while others emerged, brilliant and searing, out of the calamity. Poignant, mesmerizing, profound-- 1974 offers revelations not just about the Seventies but about our world today." -- Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia and New People "Masterful. . . . a lovely tribute to the transformative value of imagination." -- Washington Post "Remarkable. . . . [Prose] is the Meryl Streep of literary fiction, convincingly shifting between multiple voices and points of view-not just from book to book, but within a single work." -- NPR "(A) madcap, razor-sharp comedy." -- People ...
