A Changed Man.A CHANGED MAN. Francine Prose Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, and her novel Blue Angel , 2005. Read by Eric Conger. 13 cds. 15 hrs. Harper Audio. 0-06-077651-x. $39.95. Cardboard; plot, author notes. SA Vincent Nolan, skin-headed neo-Nazi defector, applies for a job at World Brotherhood Watch, a humanitarian organization run by internationally revered Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. survivor Meyer Maslow. "I want to save guys like me from becoming guys like me," he announces. Maslow's organization was founded on the premise that people can change "one man at a time, one heart at a time." He gets the job--and so begins a lighthearted light·heart·ed adj. Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree. See Synonyms at glad1. light yet not lightweight satire about good and evil, love and hate and the blurry line between them. Prose is an artful art·ful adj. 1. Exhibiting art or skill: "The furniture is an artful blend of antiques and reproductions" Michael W. Robbins. 2. chronicler of those contradictory impulses that get in the way of our best and worst intentions, while Conger's soothing, upbeat voice strikes just the right note. Secondary students could find much food for thought in this approachable, hopeful novel. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advance students and -adults. This code will help librarians and teacher working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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