The Book Show #1353 - Francine Prose

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published June 24, 2014 at 3:06 PM EDT

Francine Prose's new novel is about a cross-dressing French racecar driver who collaborates with the Nazis and is recounted by various alternating voices.

Prose has written more than a dozen novels dating back to 1973 to her latest opus, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932.

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