The Believers - (P.S.) by Zoe Heller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A tough, wise, and funny book about a family that has to grow up all at once--and that includes the grown-ups. A sustaining, intelligent novel about how the big questions affect and change all our small lives.--Anne Enright, author "The Gathering."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit."--<em>New York Times</em> </p><p>Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of <em>What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal</em> with another tour-de-force on the meaning of faith, belief, and trust: <em>The Believers</em>. Tragic and comic, witty and intense, <em>The Believers</em> is the story of a dysfunctional family forced by tragedy to confront their own personal demons. In the vein of Claire Messud and Zadie Smith, Zoe Heller has written that rare novel that tackles the big ideas without sacrificing page-turning readability. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>When a stroke fells radical New York lawyer Joel Litvinoff, a secret is revealed that forces Audrey, his wife, to reexamine everything she believed about their forty-year marriage. In the meantime Joel's children are struggling with their own dilemmas and doubts. Disillusioned revolutionary Rosa has been drawn into the world of Orthodox Judaism. Karla, a devoted--and married--social worker hoping to adopt a child, is falling in love with the owner of a newspaper stand. Lenny, the ne'er-do-well, faces yet another relapse into heroin addiction. In the course of battling their own demons--and one another--the Litvinoffs must reexamine long-held articles of faith and decide what--if anything--they still believe in.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A beautiful, oftentimes hilarious, razor-precise portrait of a family, a city, and an examination of the eternal and universal urge to embrace something, anything, greater than ourselves."--Richard Price, author of Lush Life<br><br>"A moving, deeply intelligent look at intellectual loyalties-to ideology, religion, family-and the humans attached to them. This is a wonderful novel."--Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland<br><br>"Profoundly satisfying. . . . Heller injects that difficult-to-pinpoint something-or-other that elevates soap opera to art. . . . The Believers pulses with . . . something deep and lasting and larger than mere story."--Lionel Shriver, author of The Post-Birthday World<br><br>"Tough, wise and funny. . . . A sustaining, intelligent novel about how the big questions affect and change all our small lives."--Anne Enright, author of The Gathering<br>
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