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In a 2021 New York Times interview marking the publication of her last novel, The Vixen, Francine Prose confessed that she is “easily bored by books.”

What? The author of more than 30 uncommonly smart volumes of fiction and nonfiction is a reader who often loses interest? So she says. Which is why she has worked so hard over the past half century to make sure her books are engrossing.

Prose’s novels, including her latest, Five Weeks in

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