

A Changed Man
Author: Francine Prose
Narrator: Eric Conger
Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/01/2005
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Satire, Political
Author: Francine Prose
Narrator: Eric Conger
Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/01/2005
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Satire, Political
Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; 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, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised 1974: A Person History, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose 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 is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Eric Conger's stage credits include appearances Off-Broadway and at the Long Wharf Theater. He has appeared as a regular on Another World and Loving, and has translated the works of Feydeau.
My problem with this book is not exactly that it's essentially a hokey Lifetime movie, a.k.a. a corny cheeseball romantic pseudo drama, so much as the subject matter was toned down to a largely PG incarnation. Granted, movies like American History X are on the opposite end of the spectrum and possib......more
In "A Changed Man" Prose succeeds in doing what every writer hopes in how she takes you into a foreign place and gives you a glimpse of life from another viewpoint. Her book is at once both optimistic and pessimistic: she shows a neo nazi who seems to change for the better and a world known Holocaus......more
Such a bummer. Riding a high after Francine Prose's "Reading Like a Writer", I picked up this book -- which I had been seeing on independent booksellers' tables for a while. I had hoped to enjoy it as much as I enjoyed her book on reading/writing because I thought she offered really keen insights on......more
I've read two other books by Francine Prose (Blue Angel and The Peaceable Kingdom). This was pretty different. Reminded me a lot of Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, but not as funny. The story is basically that an uninspired Neo-Nazi sees the light while on Ecstacy and decides to throw himself at the m......more