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The Believers by: Zoë Heller List Price: £16.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £8.49 You Save: £8.50 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780670916122 ISBN: 0670916129 Label: Fig Tree Manufacturer: Fig Tree Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: September 25, 2008 Publisher: Fig Tree Studio: Fig Tree Sales Rank: 212 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Impossible to care...I loved Zoe Heller's last books but this one is packed with the most unsympathetic bunch of characters I've ever come across in one book. I didn't care about any of them, and the matriarch who dominates the book is so relentlessly unpleasant that I was absolutely indifferent to her fate. Her appalling selfish cruelty towards all her children was implausible and unquestioned by any of her family or friends. Her children were all equally unattractive and, despite their grim family background, I felt no sympathy for their fates. None of them seemed to learn anything about themselves and none of them seemed truly affected by the death of their father. There were no moving or telling encounters between mother and children, just a lot of vicious ... Read More: Rating:  - The BelieversZoe Heller's third novel, The Believers, is a delicious satire on modern social mores. Her previous two novels, the sorely unrecognised farce Everything You Know and the thrillingly malicious Notes on a Scandal - which was made into a film - as well as Heller's many entertaining newspaper and magazine columns, have all demonstrated her abilities as a sharp, witty observer of ugly human behaviour. The Believers is rich with more of Heller's wickedly acute apercus. Set in 2002, the story follows events in the lives of the self consciously liberal Audrey and Joel Litvinoff and their children one tumultuous year. Heller's novel is littered with despicable characters that she paints deftly with simple but ... Read More: Rating: - absorbingThis book is totally absorbing. But I do agree with an earlier reviewer who commented that the end felt like it was wrapped up too quickly. It was unsatisfying and felt slightly incomplete and hurried. I felt that the previously discussed flawed nature of the characters added interest, and was absorbed by the details of how they, in particular Audrey, developed. In fact I found this more interesting than many novels with protagonists who it may be easier to like at all times... Additionally, the novel has a real sense of time and place and this allows one to be absorbed deeply into the novel. The time and place in this case is post 9-11 Manhattan, in itself hugely diverse and gripping. Although Audrey (the matriarch) is English, she has been ... Read More: Rating: - the believersThe Believers read it read it read it, zoe heller is such a good writer, she can make you feel like you are related to these women in her book! Rating: - Five Years In The Waiting!It's been five years since Zoe Heller wrote Notes On A Scandal, and after reading The Believers I do believe it was well worth the wait. Heller is a genius at creating obnoxious characters, who are hateful and totally unlikeable yet spinning an unputdownable story at the same time. The Believers opens when Audrey and Joel first meet in London and then moves quickly to New York in 2002, they have now been married for 40 years and the story really starts from there. Joel is a very succesful, out-spoken New York lawyer and Audrey has been his dutiful and very outspoken wife for all these years. When Joel is taken very ill and the family discover his secret, they all start to examine how they feel about themselves and each other. ... Read More: |
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