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A CHANGED MAN
by Prose, Francine
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060196742
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196745
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2005. 4th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Author also of GUIDED TOURS OF HELL,THE LIVES OF THE MUSES, MY NEWAMERICAN LIFE and BLUE ANGEL (nominated for the National Book Award) among numerous others. ]New, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped ] L71
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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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9374
- Title
- A CHANGED MAN
- Author
- Prose, Francine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060196742
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196745
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- FICTION NEW YORK N Y
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed/Inscribed Books;
- Product_type
- 2
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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