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A Changed Man (Hardcover)
by Francine Prose (Author) "NOLAN PULLS INTO THE PARKING GARAGE, braced for the Rican attendant with the cojones big enough to make a point of wondering what this rusted..." (more)

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Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Mar 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0060196742
ISBN-13: 978-0060196745
Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 4 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,427,427 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Independent
`A Changed Man is wickedly entertaining, and Prose's ironic gaze
consistently laser-sharp.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

New York Times Book Review
'Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced...this story has a
continental sweep'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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NOLAN PULLS INTO THE PARKING GARAGE, braced for the Rican attendant with the cojones big enough to make a point of wondering what this rusted hunk of Chevy pickup junk is doing in Jag-u-ar City. Read the first page

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A superb satire, 30 Jun 2005

By	Jonathan Spencer (E.Sussex, England) - See all my reviews

I knew nothing of this author before reading this book, but was captivated by the blurb on the back cover and then when reading the first few pages. The introductory passage where the reformed nazi enters the lift and a dwarf gets on is both funny and thought provoking.

The book is balanced in many ways by both the sly knocks at the Politically Correct and the demonstration of how people are inculcated with prejudice. The chapter where Bonnie's Son is brought up before the Principle after writing an essay on Hitler being Gay and being accused of being homophobic is superb.

This is contrasted with the adults inner struggle between being better people and attempting to do good things and their own desires, selfless vs selfish.

At very turn the book surprises, as it mocks the media, the extreme right and the world of the charitiable cause, and underlying this is a kind of existential lonliness of all the characters, as just like all the best comic writing a good proportion contains bathos and pathos.

Yes it does address serious issues, such as race, class and sex but in a subtle and gentle way, it leads you on an entertaining path, which at the end left me with all sorts of questions in my mind with regard to how we combat evil and try to do good.

get it, read it, its good.

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