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A Changed Man A Novel [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Fiction)
  • Author:  Prose, Francine
  • Author:  Prose, Francine
  • ISBN-10:  0060560037
  • ISBN-10:  0060560037
  • ISBN-13:  9780060560034
  • ISBN-13:  9780060560034
  • Publisher:  Harper Perennial
  • Publisher:  Harper Perennial
  • Pages:  448
  • Pages:  448
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2006
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2006
  • SKU:  0060560037-11-MING
  • SKU:  0060560037-11-MING
  • Item ID: 100000108
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What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to save guys like me from becoming guys like me ? As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do this, he also transforms those around him: Meyer Maslow, who fears heroism has become a desk job; the foundation's dedicated fund-raiser, Bonnie Kalen, an appealingly vulnerable divorced single mother; and even Bonnie's teenage son.

Francine Prose'sA Changed Manis a darkly comic and masterfully inventive novel that poses essential questions about human nature, morality, and the capacity for personal reinvention.

Mercilessly funny.American literatures finest satirist of professionals with problems . . . Prose knows the territory and tweaks it deliciously.Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced . . . This story has a continental sweep.Timely and clever . . . Prose carries us along on the sheer energy of her sentences.Well-crafted and insightful.A novel of ideas, and provocative ones. Class--the dirty American secret--is no secret to Prose.[A] brilliant new comic novel . . . Proses sense of humor is as keen as ever.Piercing wit... This tale hits comic high notes even as it probes serious issues.Francine Prose is back with a powerful new novel about the possibility of starting over.This book has it all: great characters, dark humor, a racing plot and important themes.[An] artfully structured novel . . . [with] a selection of showstopping literary set pieces.Pitch-perfect and nuanced . . . We cant wait to crawl into bed with this book every night.
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