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Singh, Sonia Goddess For Hire 2004 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078913. ISBN #006059036X / 9780060590369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Singh, Sonia Goddess For Hire 2004 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078913. ISBN #006059036X / 9780060590369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A hip chick from Newport Beach, California, who's just turned thirty, discovered she's the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali,and happens to be unemployed and still livingwith her parents. Saving the world, though,may prove to be a curry-scented breezecompared to dealing with her extendedIndian family. In their eyes she isn't just theblack sheep -- she's low-grade mutton. To make matters worse, despite frequent andtherapeutic bouts of shopping and Starbucks,and the mentoring of a Taco Bell-loving,Coca Cola-guzzling swami, Maya hastrouble just surviving, thanks to the attentionsof a Kali-hating fanatic and a matchmaking aunthell-bent on finding her a nice Indian boy. Maya hasno interest in boys. She wants a man and she may have found one. He's tall, dark, and gorgeous ... and completely uninterested in her. In the name of all that's holy and fashionable ...what on Earth is a goddess to do?
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Sirls, William The Crown Lord Vireo/Rare Bird 2018 hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141358. ISBN #1947856464 / 9781947856462. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sisman, Robyn Summer in the City Plume 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047965. ISBN #0452286123 / 9780452286122. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sisman, Robyn Summer in the City Plume 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047965. ISBN #0452286123 / 9780452286122. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Suze Wilding and Lloyd Rockwell are complete strangers. She lives in London; he lives in New York. But when their advertising firm sponsors a job swap, having them trade apartments and jobs for the summer, they find themselves living each other s lives. From the beginning, these two seem polar opposites Suze is impetuous, brash, and commitment phobic, whereas Lloyd, cautious and thoughtful, is looking to settle down with his suitable girlfriend. But when Suze discovers a plot at work to get Lloyd fired, the two begin communicating long-distance, and can t help wondering if they might just be perfect for one another.
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Sittenfeld, Curtis American Wife 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094357v1. ISBN #0812975405 / 9780812975406. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sittenfeld, Curtis American Wife 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094357v1. ISBN #0812975405 / 9780812975406. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown, she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the trajectory of her life. More than a decade later, when the charismatic son of a powerful Republican family sweeps her off her feet, she is surprised to find herself admitted into a world of privilege. And when her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona. As her husband s presidency enters its second term, Alice must confront contradictions years in the making and face questions nearly impossible to ans
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Sittenfeld, Curtis American Wife: A Novel Random House 2008 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135226. ISBN #1400064759 / 9781400064755. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sittenfeld, Curtis American Wife: A Novel Random House 2008 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135226. ISBN #1400064759 / 9781400064755. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, almost in opposition to itself. A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown. But a tragic accident when she was seventeen shattered her identity and made her understand the fragility of life and the tenuousness of luck. So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: She was serious and thoughtful, and he would rather crack a joke than offer a real insight; he was the wealthy son of a bastion family of the Republican party, and she was a school librarian and registered Democrat. Comfortable in her quiet and unassuming life, she felt inured to his charms. And then, much to her surprise, Alice fell for Charlie. As Alice learns to make her way amid the clannish energy and smug confidence of the Blackwell family, navigating the strange rituals of their country club and summer estate, she remains uneasy with her newfound good fortune. And when Charlie eventually becomes President, Alice is thrust into a position she did not seek one of power and influence, privilege and responsibility. As Charlie s tumultuous and controversial second term in the White House wears on, Alice must face contradictions years in the making: How can she both love and fundamentally disagree with her husband? How complicit has she been in the trajectory of her own life? What should she do when her private beliefs run against her public persona? In Alice Blackwell, New York Times bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is a gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and the exigencies of fate into a brilliant tapestry a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare. Praise for American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld is an amazing writer, and American Wife is a brave and moving novel about the intersection of private and public life in America. Ambitious and humble at the same time, Sittenfeld refuses to trivialize or simplify people, whether real or imagined. Richard Russo What a remarkable and brave thing: a compassionate, illuminating, and beautifully rendered portrait of a fictional Republican first lady with a life and husband very much like our actual Republican first lady s. Curtis Sittenfeld has written a novel as impressive as it is improbable. Kurt Andersen
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Sittenfeld, Curtis Man Of My Dreams 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145556. ISBN #0812975391 / 9780812975390. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sittenfeld, Curtis Man Of My Dreams 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145556. ISBN #0812975391 / 9780812975390. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn t exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah s observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood. from The Man of My Dreams In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep , Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life. Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah s own life, her parents marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremes just maybe lie the answers to love s most bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up childhood? Is settling for someone who s not your soul mate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky or just pathetic? None of the relationships in Hannah s life are without complications. There s her father, whose stubbornness Hannah realizes she s unfortunately inherited; her gorgeous cousin, Fig, whose misbehavior alternately intrigues and irritates Hannah; Henry, whom Hannah first falls for in college, while he s dating Fig; and the boyfriends who love her more or less than she deserves, who adore her or break her heart. By the time she s in her late twenties, Hannah has finally figured out what she wants most but she doesn t yet know whether she ll find the courage to go after it. Full of honesty and humor, The Man of My Dreams is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are. From the Hardcover edition.
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Skelton, Red Great Lazarus hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016868. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Skibell, Joseph English Disease 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092070. ISBN #1565122577 / 9781565122574. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Skibell, Joseph English Disease 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092070. ISBN #1565122577 / 9781565122574. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary THE ENGLISH DISEASE is a remarkable feat, a story that mixes the Marx brothers and Maimonides, pornographic yoga with Polish paranoia, and the brutality of kindergarten with the beauty of the Kiddush. It's the tale of Charles Belski, an expert in the works of Gustav Mahler, who, like Mahler himself, is talented and neurotic, and a nonpracticing Jew. Belski suffers guilt over his own contribution to the decline of the Jewish religion, especially since he married a gentile and now has a gentile daughter. As if he can't conjure up enough angst on his own, his great-grandfather appears before him in a dream to admonish him for neglecting the obligations of his faith. For Belski, the dilemma is how an assimilated intellectual can connect with an ancient and irrational to him religion without losing his sense of self. Is he the self-hating Jew that his obstreperous colleague pegs him for? Can his wife and daughter bully him into opening up his heart and letting in a little joy? Belski tries to come to grips with the meaninglessness of modern life, the demands of tradition, the nature of love and fidelity, and the true significance of the lyrics to Goodnight Irene. Joseph Skibell has written a novel that is sad, funny, daring, and ultimately redemptive.
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Skinner, Cornelia Otis; Kimbrough, Emily Our Hearts Were Young and Gay hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1060272. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Skyhorse, Brando Madonnas Of Echo Park Free Press 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002709. ISBN #1439170843 / 9781439170847. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Skyhorse, Brando Madonnas Of Echo Park Free Press 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002709. ISBN #1439170843 / 9781439170847. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voice poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, the land that belongs to us again. Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
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Sleath, Betsy Hess Pelican Island Pharmacy ArchwayPublishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109948. ISBN #1480821594 / 9781480821590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sleath, Betsy Hess Pelican Island Pharmacy ArchwayPublishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109948. ISBN #1480821594 / 9781480821590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Five years after her divorce, Jessie thinks her problems with her ex-husband, Jason, are over--until the day he attacks her on the campus where she works as a pharmacy professor. Several months later, Jessie flees Connecticut with her teenage daughter, May, and heads to the small beach town of Pelican Island, North Carolina, to seek safety and a new beginning. After she secures a job as a pharmacist to help out family friends, Jessie is soon intertwined in the lives of the members of the local Methodist church who frequent the pharmacy's soda fountain, including the pastor and his wife. While a rivalry develops with Norma, the feisty southern belle who runs the soda fountain, Jessie becomes the most eligible female in Pelican Island. As she builds friendships with the town doctor and a lieutenant colonel, Jessie wonders if she will ever be able to trust a man again. But just as she settles into her new life and opens her heart to love, Jessie's past rises up once again to haunt her. In this compelling novel, a woman attempting to rebuild her life after an attack by her ex-husband discovers that her painful past may be more difficult to escape than she ever realized.
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Sloan, Maya High Before Homeroom 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112073. ISBN #1439171297 / 9781439171295. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sloan, Maya High Before Homeroom 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112073. ISBN #1439171297 / 9781439171295. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Losers, now you can get the bad-boy rep the girls find positively irresistible Unleash your dark side with the Doug Schaffer plan for drug addiction and rehabilitation Kids, don't try this at home. At sixteen years old, Doug Schaffer knows two things for sure: 1. He is doomed to live in the shadow of his older brother, Trevor, a former high school football star who is stationed in Iraq. 2. Free-spirited Laurilee, the hot ear-piercing girl at the mall, only dates bad boys. Cue Doug's foolproof plan to tarnish his own unremarkable reputation. The first step is to develop a drug addiction. His mom's too preoccupied with organizing care packages for Mothers Support Our Troops Northwest Oklahoma City Chapter to stop him. Besides, he just needs to get hooked on meth long enough to come back from rehab a totally different person. Someone people notice. With the help of Trevor s strung-out former high-school buddy, drug addict Doug has the confidence that loser Doug never mustered. He stays out all night, scores girls, and stands up for himself. Then Trevor unexpectedly returns home with a dark secret of his own, and everything Doug thought was true is shattered. Soon the brothers find a common ground they never knew they shared as they discover the price of pleasing others is the freedom to be yourself.
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Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres Ballantine Books 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152672. ISBN #0449907481 / 9780449907481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton 1998 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030772. ISBN #0679450742 / 9780679450740. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton 1998 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030772. ISBN #0679450742 / 9780679450740. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive--a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We see her at twenty, making a good marriage--to Thomas Newton, a steady, sweet-tempered Yankee who passes through her hometown on a dangerous mission. He belongs to a group of rashly brave New England abolitionists who dedicate themselves to settling the Kansas Territory with like-minded folk to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. Lidie packs up and goes with him. And the novel races alongside them into the Territory, into the maelstrom of "Bloody Kansas," where slaveholding Missourians constantly and viciously clash with Free Staters, where wandering youths kill you as soon as look at you--where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband as the young couple again and again barely escape entrapment in webs of atrocity on both sides of the great question. And when, suddenly, cold-blooded murder invades her own intimate circle, Lidie doesn't falter. She cuts off her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and rides into Missouri in search of the killers--a woman in a fiercely male world, an abolitionist spy in slave territory. On the run, her life threatened, her wits sharpened, she takes on yet another identity--and, in the very midst of her masquerade, discovers herself. Lidie grows increasingly important to us as we follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, this is Jane Smiley at her enthralling and enriching best.
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Smiley, Jane At Paradise Gate scribner 1981 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168812. ISBN #0671885332 / 9780671885335. (keywords: Family Troubles Dying Father Mother Daughters Relationships Regeneration Reuniting) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Barn Blind Ballantine Books 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028304. ISBN #0449908747 / 9780449908747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Barn Blind Ballantine Books 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028304. ISBN #0449908747 / 9780449908747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy. Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the excesses we commit to achieve success. "Chilling . . . Jane Smiley handles with skill and understanding the mercurial molasses of adolescence, and the inchoate, cumbersome love that family members feel for one another." -- The New York Times
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Smiley, Jane Golden Age Knopf 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118982. ISBN #0307700348 / 9780307700346. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Golden Age Knopf 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118982. ISBN #0307700348 / 9780307700346. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political and personal challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before. Michael and Richie, the rivalrous twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes world of government and finance in Washington and New York, but they soon realize that one s fiercest enemies can be closest to home; Charlie, the charming, recently found scion, struggles with whether he wishes to make a mark on the world; and Guthrie, once poised to take over the Langdons Iowa farm, is instead deployed to Iraq, leaving the land ever the heart of this compelling saga in the capable hands of his younger sister. Determined to evade disaster, for the planet and her family, Felicity worries that the farm s once-bountiful soil may be permanently imperiled, by more than the extremes of climate change. And as they enter deeper into the twenty-first century, all the Langdon women wives, mothers, daughters find themselves charged with carrying their storied past into an uncertain future. Combining intimate drama, emotional suspense, and a full command of history, Golden Age brings to a magnificent conclusion the century-spanning portrait of this unforgettable family and the dynamic times in which they ve loved, lived, and died: a crowning literary achievement from a beloved master of American storytelling.
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Smiley, Jane Good Faith Knopf 2003 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or947269. ISBN #0375412174 / 9780375412172. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Good Faith Knopf 2003 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or947269. ISBN #0375412174 / 9780375412172. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he s ready to begin again. It s 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe s new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS. But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what s the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime? And then there s Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning and married daughter of Joe s mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she s just been waiting for him to be available. The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention to Marcus and to Felicity and reap the rewards? Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages every Main Street an El Dorado . To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.
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