Good Faith

Jane Smiley

Publié par FABER ET FABER, le 28 octobre 2003

467 pages

Résumé

Greed. Envy. Sex. Property. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter.Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But ityes'>#8217;s 1982, and even in Joeyes'>#8217;s small town, values are in upheaval: not just property values, either. Enter Marcus Burns, a wouldbe master of the universe whose years with the IRS have taught him which rules are meant to be broken. Before long he and Joe are new best friendsyes'>#8212;and partners in an investment venture so complex that no one may ever understand it. Add to this Joeyes'>#8217;s roller coaster affair with his mentoryes'>#8217;s married daughter. The result is as suspenseful and entertaining as any of Jane Smileyyes'>#8217;s fiction.From the Trade Paperback edition.