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    Everything Changes: A Novel
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    Everything Changes: A Novel

    Written by Jonathan Tropper

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    Jonathan Tropper's novel The Book of Joe dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. Now Tropper brings all that-and more-to an irresistible new novel. In Everything Changes, Tropper delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the perils of a well-planned life.

    EVERYTHING CHANGES

    To all appearances, Zachary King is a man with luck on his side. A steady, well-paying job, a rent-free Manhattan apartment, and Hope, his stunning, blue-blooded fiancée: smart, sexy, and completely out of his league. But as the wedding day looms, Zack finds himself haunted by the memory of his best friend, Rael, killed in a car wreck two years earlier-and by his increasingly complicated feelings for Tamara, the beautiful widow Rael left behind.

    Then Norm-Zack's freewheeling, Viagra-popping father-resurfaces after a twenty-year absence, looking to make amends. Norm's overbearing, often outrageous efforts to reestablish ties with his sons infuriate Zack, and yet, despite twenty years of bad blood, he finds something compelling in his father's maniacal determination to transform his own life. Inspired by Norm, Zack boldly attempts to make some changes of his own, and the results are instantly calamitous. Soon fists are flying, his love life is a shambles, and his once carefully structured existence is spinning hopelessly out of control.

    Charged with intelligence and razor sharp wit, Everything Changes is at once hilarious, moving, sexy, and wise-a work of transcendent storytelling from an exciting new talent.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 29, 2005
    ISBN9781415923672
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    Everything Changes: A Novel
    Author

    Jonathan Tropper

    Jonathan Tropper is the author of This Is Where I Leave You, How to Talk to a Widower, Everything Changes, and The Book of Joe. He lives with his family in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College.

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    • 2/5
      Sure hope that Everything Changes soon because this book was not all that funny or fun to read.Biopsy plot went on way too long.
    • 3/5
      To quote one of the main characters, this is "Erectile dysfunction of the soul."
    • 4/5
      Loved the seamless mix of tones that these characters go through, sometimes shifting in thoughts and behavior sometimes even contrary to their better judgments had they not be so conflicted about how they feel or how they should behave. So much like real people living real lives, n'est pas?
    • 5/5
      This story of absent fathers, fighting and urinary complaints was entertainment from start to finish. Right from the first chapter which demonstrates the author’s ability to sieve out what is boring and leave in what is interesting, the story unfolds in prose that seems effortlessly brilliant. It always seemed to go into a lengthy description of someone urinating just when I was reading it over breakfast, but what the hell. Just a great read.
    • 2/5
      Zack King is over 30. He has a job that pays well but that gives no satisfaction. He has a really rich friend, Jed, who lets him share his great house in Manhattan. He has an extremely beautiful (and rich) girlfriend who is about to become his fiancé. He has a brother who is a punk rock musician. He’s got another brother who is mentally challenged but to whom Zack is the greatest brother and friend. His best friend, Rael, died in a car crash two years earlier, which Zack survived. His best friend had an infant child named Sophie whom Zack visits frequently and delights. He even changes her diapers when called upon. Sophie’s mom is the all too gorgeous Tamara, who doesn’t deserve the grief she’s had to suffer. Fortunately Zack has been there throughout to help her with Sophie and with her loss of Rael. Oh, yes, and Zack has daddy issues due to an absconding father who left him and his brothers in the lurch when they were children. Needless to say, complications ensue.Jonathan Tropper’s writing is always peppy and full of zing. His man-boy protagonist is always a real everyman (well, at least the kind of everyman we’d all like to be, right). He’s got problems. But his problems are mostly self-inflicted (how could they not be when you are as self-interested as Zack). And the solution when it comes is bound to be a violent overthrow of his self-image and the birth of his new self (because everything is really all about him, after all). And Zack will end up feeling mighty good about himself by the time we reach the end of the novel. Very readable, high rate of box-ticking, feel-good narrative arc. Yet entirely unsatisfying. Read it on the beach, but leave it there for the tide to wash back out to sea.
    • 4/5
      Everything Changes is a book about a young man, Zack. He has a very beautiful fiancee, a very dysfunctional family, and lost his best friend in an accident. During the book, big changes are made in some of these aspects of his life after Zack finds blood in his urine. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It is both funny and tragic, Zack is a very likable guy, and the writing is quite good. Tropper's style reminds me a bit of Nick Hornby, and I am definitely looking forward to reading more of his books.
    • 4/5
      Tropper has written yet another funny book about everyday life. As I read the book, I could picture myself as the main character. Very entertaining, and loved the title of his brothers punk band songs!!
    • 5/5
      I am listening to the audio of this book and find myself laughing as I drive my carpool. Jonathan Tropper is a funny guy and his characters are wonderful. Norman King is such a character.
    • 4/5
      This book is what I consider Tropper's second best book. I liked the Book of Joe better. Meet a main character who has a creepy father and a weird family.