A Changed Man: A Novel - Brossura

Prose, Francine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060560037 ISBN 13: 9780060560034

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2006

Riassunto

Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow, the head of a human rights foundation, is baffled by the entreaties of Vincent Nolan, a young neo-Nazi who inadvertently transforms the lives of other people in his attempts to change his own life. By the author of The Lives of the Muses. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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“Mercilessly funny.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times)

“American literature’s finest satirist of professionals with problems . . . Prose knows the territory and tweaks it deliciously.” (Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer)

“Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced . . . This story has a continental sweep.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Timely and clever . . . Prose carries us along on the sheer energy of her sentences.” (Chicago Tribune)

“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)

“[A] brilliant new comic novel . . . Prose’s sense of humor is as keen as ever.” (Miami Herald)

“Piercing wit... This tale hits comic high notes even as it probes serious issues.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“Francine Prose is back with a powerful new novel about the possibility of starting over.” (Harper's Bazaar)

“This book has it all: great characters, dark humor, a racing plot and important themes.” (Newsday)

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060560037
• ISBN 13: 9780060560034
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 421