Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Smiley, Jane |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 5/11/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a “” novel (The New York Times Book Review) that conjures all the American obsessions of the 1980s: sex, greed, envy, real estate, and the American dream.
In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel,Jane Smiley nails down several American preoccupations with the expertise of a mastercarpenter.
Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybodytrusts, for good reason. But it’s 1982, and even in Joe’s small town, values arein upheaval: not just property values, either. Enter Marcus Burns, a would-be masterof the universe whose years with the IRS have taught him which rules are meant tobe broken. Before long he and Joe are new best friends—and partners in an investmentventure so complex that no one may ever understand it. Add to this Joe’s roller coasteraffair with his mentor’s married daughter. The result is as suspenseful and entertainingas any of Jane Smiley’s fiction.
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