A Changed Man - Softcover

Prose, Francine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060560037 ISBN 13: 9780060560034

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

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's A Changed Man is a darkly comic and masterfully inventive novel that poses essential questions about human nature, morality, and the capacity for personal reinvention.

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Review:

"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

"[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

About the Author:

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction, including 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, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she 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 lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060560037
• ISBN 13: 9780060560034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448