On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor, Meyer Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his life. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger who claims to have read Maslow's books, who has Waffen-SS tattoos under his shirtsleeves, and who says that his mission is to save guys like him from becoming guys like him?

As he gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do that, Vincent also transforms those around him: Maslow, who fears that heroism has become a desk job; Bonnie Kalen, the foundation's fund-raiser, a divorced single mother and a devoted believer in Maslow's crusade against intolerance and injustice; and Bonnie's teenage son, Danny, whose take on the world around him is at once openhearted, sharp-eyed, and as fundamentally decent as his mother's.

Masterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in our lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in our drug-addled and media-driven culture. Remarkable for the author's tender sympathy for her characters, A Changed Man poses the essential questions: What constitutes a life worth living? Is it possible to change? What does it mean to be a moral human being? The fearless intelligence, wit, and humanity that inform this novel make it Francine Prose's most accomplished yet.

Reviews
"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

"[An] artfully structured novel . . . [with] a selection of show-stopping literary set pieces."
--Entertainment Weekly

"This book has it all: great characters, dark humor, a racing plot and important themes."
--Newsday

"[A] brilliant new comic novel . . . Prose’s sense of humor is as keen as ever."
--Miami Herald

"A novel of ideas, and provocative ones. Class -- the dirty American secret -- is no secret to Prose."
--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Mercilessly funny."
--Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Timely and clever . . . Prose carries us along on the sheer energy of her sentences."
--Chicago Tribune

"Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced . . . This story has a continental sweep."
--New York Times Book Review