Goldengrove: A Novel by Francine Prose
The animating spirit of Francine Prose’s new novel is the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child.” It supplies not only the novel’s title and epigraph but also the names of its central character and of the bookstore her family owns. Characters discuss the verse both [...]

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