Good Faith (Smiley, Jane) - Hardcover

Smiley, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375412174 ISBN 13: 9780375412172

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

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Book by Smiley Jane

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Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus on a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. 200,000 first printing.

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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era has dawned; Joe’s new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick.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 f

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375412174
• ISBN 13: 9780375412172
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 417