The Believers
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780676978063 (0676978061)
Publish date: February 9th 2010
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Family,
Religion,
Contemporary,
New York
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/12/review-believers-by-zoe-heller.html
I surprised myself a bit with this one. I've lately started abandoning books that have unlikeable characters in them. This book has pretty much nothing but unlikeable characters, yet the writing was good enough that I was engaged, and wanted to see what would happen to the characters. Some of the...
Aaaah. 5 stars. Wonderful. Sharp, funny, tight. One of the best of the year.
Ugh. Hateful people behaving hatefully.
One hundred pages in. I have often thought of Jane Austen as a bit too straitjacketed for my tastes, but you can always see--hell, you can feel--a ferocious rage at the hypocrisies and inanities and horrid behaviors of society, but coupled with a capacious compassion for all fools and foolishness. ...
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