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The Glorious Ones

A Novel

Francine Prose

192 Pages

On-Sale Date: 16/10/2007

ISBN: 9780061493843

Trim Size: 1.000in x 1.000in x 1.000in

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From the New York Times

bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man, an early novel

about a theater troupe in 17th century Italy, republished to coincide with the

opening of a Broadway musical inspired by the book

The Glorious Ones travel the

length and breadth of 17th-century Italy, playing commedia dell’arte in the

streets and palaces with equal vigor. A small company of players founded by the

ingenious madman Flamino Scala, they endure kidnappings, passionate affairs,

cabals, riots, disgrace, and all manner of triumph and hardship. Pantalone the

miser, sunny Armanda the dwarf, gossip-loving Columbina, and evil-minded

Brighella view their myriad shared adventures through markedly different eyes.

Yet not one of them is prepared for the strange twisting of the road brought

about by the mysterious arrival of Isabella Andreini, who has come to direct

their wayward troupe.

In a beautiful new package, The Glorious Ones features musical tie-in

cover art, as well as the original, beautiful interior designed by Harry Ford

in 1974.

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-three works of fiction including the highly acclaimed Five Weeks in the Country; 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 1974: A Personal History, 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.

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