Good Faith

Good Faith

by JaneSmiley (Author)

Synopsis

Joe Stratford makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. Now that his not-very-amicable divorce is over, he is ready for his life to begin again. It's 1982 and Marcus Burns, Joe's new friend from New York, says the old rules are ready to be broken. But are his ideas about how to get rich too big and risky for Joe? And is Felicity - winning, free-spirited (and already married) - really the one he's been waiting for? From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, Good Faith is a masterly novel about some very American seductions: money, sex and real estate.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 25 Mar 2004

ISBN 10: 0571218555
ISBN 13: 9780571218554
Book Overview: Good Faith by Jane Smiley is a masterly novel about some very American seductions: money, sex and real estate.

Media Reviews
Smashing. . . . Fascinating. . . . Extremely subtle and nuanced. . . . [It has the] power to beguile and enthrall. -- The New York Times Book Review
There seems to be nothing Smiley can't write about fabulously well; her insights startle, dazzle. -- San Francisco Chronicle

An irresistible novel of bad manners, a meditation on love and money that Jane Austen might have enjoyed, if she could have handled the sex. -- Time
Everything about Good Faith is in perfect move-in condition. . . . [It] displays all the remarkable attention to detail that's the hallmark of Smiley's work. . . . Smiley has invested her best talent in this work, and you can buy it in good faith. -- The Christian Science Monitor
A vindication of the traditional American novel. . . . It depicts its disquiet by means of rich, seamless prose, scenic immediacy and tight plotting. It's a true winner. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Only a writer of consummate craftsmanship and sc
Author Bio
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St Louis, Missouri. In 1992 she won the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres, for which she also won the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her other novels include Moo (1995), Horse Heaven (2000), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Good Faith (2003) and Ten Days in the Hills (2007). Her most recent novel is Private Life (2010). In 2006 Jane Smiley was awarded the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature.