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A Changed Man 6 editions

Cover of: A Changed Man by Francine Prose
About the Book

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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6 editions First published in 2005

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Cover of: A changed man
2005, HarperCollins Publishers
A changed man
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: A Changed Man
May 23, 2005, Allison & Busby
A Changed Man
Paperback
Cover of: A Changed Man
2005, HarperCollins
A Changed Man
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: A changed man
2005, HarperCollins Publishers
A changed man
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: A Changed Man
February 28, 2006, Harper Perennial
A Changed Man
in English
Cover of: A Changed Man
February 28, 2006, Harper Perennial
A Changed Man
Paperback in English

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