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A Changed Man
by Prose, Francine
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Wraps
- ISBN 10
- 0060196742
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196745
- Seller
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LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Advance Reading Copy edition. ARC/Proof. Very Good/Wraps. 22.75 Cm. . Trade paperback, very good condition, w. ltly rubbed wraps, sme lt marks. Ltly slanted sp, ltly bumped corners. V. ltly tanned p. edges. Clean, tight, unmarked. Wraps . ISBN: 0060196742. Catalogs: Literature and Fiction.
Synopsis
On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic 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 who claims to have read Maslow's books, who has Waffen-SS tattoos under his shirtsleeves, and who says that his mission is to save guys like him from becoming guys like him?As he gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do that, Vincent also transforms those around him: Maslow, who fears that heroism has become a desk job; Bonnie Kalen, the foundation's fund-raiser, a divorced single mother and a devoted believer in Maslow's crusade against intolerance and injustice; and Bonnie's teenage son, Danny, whose take on the world around him is at once openhearted, sharp-eyed, and as fundamentally decent as his mother's.Masterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in our lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in our drug-addled and media-driven culture. Remarkable for the author's tender sympathy for her characters, A Changed Man poses the essential questions: What constitutes a life worth living? Is it possible to change? What does it mean to be a moral human being? The fearless intelligence, wit, and humanity that inform this novel make it Francine Prose's most accomplished yet.
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Details
- Seller
- George Cross Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 29201
- Title
- A Changed Man
- Author
- Prose, Francine
- Format/Binding
- ARC/Proof
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Wraps
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060196742
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196745
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 385
- Size
- 22.75 Cm
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