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As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do this, he also transforms those around him: Meyer Maslow, who fears heroism has become a desk job; the foundation's dedicated fund-raiser, Bonnie Kalen, an appealingly vulnerable divorced single mother; and even Bonnie's teenage son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancine Prose's \u003cem\u003eA Changed Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a darkly comic and masterfully inventive novel that poses essential questions about human nature, morality, and the capacity for personal reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e--Harper's Bazaar\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to \"save guys like me from becoming guys like me\"? As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do this, he also transforms those around him: Meyer Maslow, who fears heroism has become a desk job; the foundation's dedicated fund-raiser, Bonnie Kalen, an appealingly vulnerable divorced single mother; and even Bonnie's teenage son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancine Prose's \u003cem\u003eA Changed Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a darkly comic and masterfully inventive novel that poses essential questions about human nature, morality, and the capacity for personal reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2006)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58914639479128,"sku":"9780060560034","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/1220\/7960\/files\/CJ8_f7Zi--9780060560034.webp?v=1792781553"},{"product_id":"the-new-republic-paperback","title":"The New Republic - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLionel Shriver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Shriver is an incisive social satirist with a clear grip on the ironies of our contemporary age . . . 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Yet all is not as it appears. \u003cem\u003eOs Soldados Ousados de Barba\u003c\/em\u003e--\"The Daring Soldiers of Barba\" --have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for a province so dismal and backward that you couldn't give the rathole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do incidents claimed by the \"SOB\" suddenly dry up? A droll, playful novel, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e addresses terrorism with a deft, tongue-in- cheek touch while also pressing a more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug?\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. 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During the reigns of the Habsburg Charles V and his enemy the French king Francis I, the Papacy desperately struggles to secure its position and undermine its political opponents. \u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, as declared foes of the Roman Church, the radical Protestant Anabaptists are in rebellion against an entire order of European society and are persecuted and brutalized by those outside their sphere. \u003cbr\u003eIn this age devastated by the wars of religion, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and south to Venice, our hero, an Anabaptist who travels under many names, and his enemy, Q, a papal informer and heretic hunter, play a game in which no moves are forbidden. What begins as a struggle to reveal each other's identity eventually becomes part of a much greater mission: to destroy and achieve domination over each other. \u003cbr\u003ePart thriller, part novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco's T\u003ci\u003ehe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e or Iain Pears' \u003ci\u003eAn Instance of the Fingerpost\u003c\/i\u003e and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq's \u003ci\u003eAtomised\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e] is a historical novel of the grand and sweeping sort, one that aims to capture not a life or a moment, but an era of pivotal importance.-\u003ci\u003e-Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"It is hard to do better than this vivid, terrifying portrait of a survivor of the Protestant Reformation . . . The characters in Q bleed real blood, blood that was still soaking Europe in the trenches of World War I, and the firestorms of World War II.\" -- The New Republic \u003cbr\u003eWhile sixteenth-century Europe is devastated by the wars of religion following the Reformation, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Our hero, an Anabaptist who travels under many names, and his enemy, Q, a papal informer and heretic hunter, play a game in which no moves are forbidden. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and south to Venice, what begins as a struggle to reveal each other's identity eventually becomes part of a much greater mission: total annihilation of the enemy. \u003cbr\u003ePart thriller, part novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e or Iain Pears's \u003ci\u003eAn Instance of the Fingerpost\u003c\/i\u003e and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq's \u003ci\u003eAtomised.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe four pseudonymous authors of \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e live in Bologna, Italy. Their website is www.wumingfoundation.com. \u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside \u003cbr\u003e\"Q . . . is as mysterious as a miracle and hot as a burning heretic.\" -- The Raleigh News and Observer \u003cbr\u003e\"This is a big book and a big canvas . . . 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