Keeping Faith
by:
Jodi Picoult (author)
“A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.” —Richmond Times Dispatch “Extraordinary.” —Orlando Sentinel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle...
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“A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.” —Richmond Times Dispatch “Extraordinary.” —Orlando Sentinel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an “addictively readable” (Entertainment Weekly) novel that “makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment, indeed, in modern fiction” (USA Today).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060878061 (0060878061)
Publish date: February 21st 2006
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 422
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...