Keeping Faith
by:
Jodi Picoult (author)
When Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, her life starts to fall apart. And when her daughter, Faith, begins to confide in an imaginary friend, her own brush with insanity starts to take on a darker meaning. Then Faith appears to start performing miracles, and all at once the...
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When Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, her life starts to fall apart. And when her daughter, Faith, begins to confide in an imaginary friend, her own brush with insanity starts to take on a darker meaning.
Then Faith appears to start performing miracles, and all at once the situation is spiralling beyond Mariah's control. Is Faith truly seeing God? Or is she just a troubled little girl seeking refuge from her parents' divorce?
When it comes to matters of faith, it's hard to know what to believe . . .
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780340960554
Publish date: 20 marca 2008
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
This book had some parallels to her other book "Change of Heart", although I didn't find it anywhere near as compelling. I kept waiting for the Picoult twist at the end, and it never came. The ending kind of fizzled. Characters were slightly meh. I did enjoy Millie Epstein, the grandmother. If you r...
Pomysł bardzo ciekawy, ale niestety lekko skaszaniony. Po raz pierwszy widzę sytuację, kiedy Jodi Picoult nie wykorzystuje potencjału narracji wieloosobowej. Przecież tak świetnie umie się nią posługiwać! W pozostałych znanych mi książkach jej autorstwa jesteśmy „przerzucani” między punktami widzeni...
I just cannot read this book. I don't like any of the characters and the story does not flow well for me. I'm done with it.
Schon der Schreibstil der Autorin hat mir hier nicht zugesagt. Die Geschichte wird im Präsens erzählt und ich kann nicht genau sagen, warum, aber ich lese lieber in Vergangenheitsform. Dann wechselt Frau Picoult auch noch häufig und ohne für mich ersichtlichen Grund zwischen erster und dritter Perso...
Keeping Faith is primarily a story about a young girl who suddenly starts seeing God and performing miracles. My impression was that readers would be allowed to come to our own conclusions about this (whether it was real, invented by Faith, invented by her mother for attention, etc.), but it doesn't...
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