One spring afternoon, a young neo-nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of the World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a Holocaust survivor, Meyer Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his life. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger.
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Review:
"Mercilessly funny." -- Janet Maslin, New York Times "Well-crafted and insightful." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A novel of ideas, and provocative ones. Class--the dirty American secret--is no secret to Prose."--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Timely and clever . . . Prose carries us along on the sheer energy of her sentences."--Chicago Tribune "Francine Prose is back with a powerful new novel about the possibility of starting over."--Harper's Bazaar "Pitch-perfect and nuanced . . . We can't wait to crawl into bed with this book every night."--New York Observer "Well-crafted and insightful."--San Francisco Chronicle "This book has it all: great characters, dark humor, a racing plot and important themes."--Newsday "Piercing wit... This tale hits comic high notes even as it probes serious issues."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[An] artfully structured novel . . . [with] a selection of showstopping literary set pieces."--Entertainment Weekly "American literature's finest satirist of professionals with problems . . . Prose knows the territory and tweaks it deliciously."--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer "[A] brilliant new comic novel . . . Prose's sense of humor is as keen as ever."--Miami Herald "Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced . . . This story has a continental sweep."--New York Times Book Review "Mercilessly funny."--Janet Maslin, New York Times
About the Author:
Francine Prose is the author of ten highly acclaimed works of fiction, inclusing the bestselling 'Blue Angel'. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly and GQ. Prose is also the recipient of the Guggenheim and Fulbright awards, and has taught at John Hopkins University. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherAllison & Busby
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0749083735
- ISBN 13 9780749083731
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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