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| The Believers (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel’s children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the meantime, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new-found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Karla, an unhappily married social worker, is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what – if anything – they still believe in.
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First page first lines:
‘At a party in a bedsit just off Gower Street, a young woman stood alone at the window, her elbows pinned to her sides in an attempt to hide the dark flowers of perspiration blossoming at the armholes of her dress. The forecast had been for a break in the week-long heatwave, but all day the promised rain had held off. Now, the soapy air was crackling with immanent brightness and pigeons had begun to huddle peevishly on window ledges’...
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Category: Novel
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Author: Zoe Heller
Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of German-Jewish immigrant Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Heller began her career in journalism, as a feature writer for the Independent on Sunday in the UK. She later returned to New York to write for Vanity Fair and then The New Yorker. She also wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Times magazine in the UK. She currently lives in New York City. She has published two other novels, Everything You Know and Notes On A Scandal, which was one of six books shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and made into a film in 2006.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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Reviews:
‘Astonishingly well-observed, its virtuoso prose compressed and beautiful. Zoë Heller possesses true brilliance as a writer...large, intelligent and stunningly written...a subtle, funny and dark family farce about faith and identity...in its thundering confidence and lyricism, The Believers is the work of a writer at the top of her game' - Guardian.
‘A dark, beautiful drama. Heller has got the stuff we look for in our best novelists: the sentences, the constant drift towards truth.’ – Joseph O’Neill, Guardian, Books of the Year.
‘One of the outstanding novels of the year.’ – Sunday Times.
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| Book code: BTD064 |
| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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