After

Description: Now in paperback--a haunting novel about what happens when protection at a school goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished in the name of safety. From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist "Blue Angel."

Brief description: 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.

Review Quotes:

"After is a rich parable. Intriguing." - New York Times Book Review

"An unsettling piece for modern times." - Kirkus Reviews