Good faith

417 pages

English language

Published June 28, 2003 by A.A. Knopf, Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-375-41217-2
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OCLC Number:
50129401

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has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick.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

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Subjects

  • Real estate agents -- Fiction
  • Success in business -- Fiction
  • Real estate development -- Fiction
  • Divorced men -- Fiction