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Title: Good Faith by Jane Smiley ISBN: 0-375-41217-4 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Pulitzer prize material.
Comment: Good Faith seems to have started out as a social novel, attempting to capture the spirit of America as it led to the savings and loan debacle of the 80's. Along the way it was hijacked by the character of Marcus Burns, visionary, manipulator, master of the new thinking. This could have been a good thing, and certainly Marcus is original, but I found him a bit over the top; also, you never see him from the inside, revealing as some of his conversations are. Smiley is very interested in family and siblings, Good Faith is no exception, and certainly there is a lot to like here. Another focus of the book are the love affairs of the narrator, Joe Stratford, and Smiley does a very good job with the "action". To my taste, however, Smiley seems to too content to make Joe's lovers interesting people rather than interesting, nuanced characters. While Smiley does not devote a lot of time to Joe's parents, religious fundamentalists who live what they believe, I found them surprisingly refreshing. Good Faith is not Pulitzer prize winning material.
Rating: 3
Summary: Another view
Comment: I agree with a lot of the positive aspects of Good Faith, as pointed out in many of its reviews, so I won't go into that. I was very disappointed that Joe, without much thought, casually used cocaine when it was offerred and apparently sufferred little or no consequences or regret. Also little or no consequences or regret for his promiscuity. The story has few consequences of any of the wrongs exhibited other than foolishly lost money. I was also disappointed that the only apparent Christians are depicted as nut cases.
Rating: 3
Summary: have faith
Comment: This is about manners and money. What else is there. Oh yeah love but that goes away.
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Title: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood ISBN: 0385503857 Publisher: Nan A. Talese Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by Anne Tyler ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum ISBN: 0670032131 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali ISBN: 0743243307 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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