It feels like a Republican Party caucus, before Of all the Jane Smiley books I've read, this was difficult to finish or like. It's a tone of self-satisfied family life coupled with middle-class beautiful home graspiness and greed, accompanied by respectable social club conformity. There are things about being a normal human in a small town that while perfectly everyday and natural, have always filled me with profound disgust. I disliked every character, the plot was too real, the ending obvious. Of all the Jane Smiley books I've read, this was difficult to finish or like. The result is as suspenseful and entertaining as any of Jane Smiley's fiction. Add to this Joe's roller coaster affair with his mentor's married daughter. Before long he and Joe are new best friends-and partners in an investment venture so complex that no one may ever understand it. Enter Marcus Burns, a would-be master of the universe whose years with the IRS have taught him which rules are meant to be broken. But it's 1982, and even in Joe's small town, values are in upheaval: not just property values, either. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter.įorthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it's 1982, and even in Joe's small town, values are in upheaval: not just property values, Greed. Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter.
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