People live behind facades so their neighbors will not see the things that are dirty, nasty and wrong. Many of the reviewers complained about the drama, some admitting that they do not enjoy these type of family dramas. I am grateful for the challenge because this is a wonderful book. I had not heard anything about it previously. I picked up this book as part of a challenge I am participating in this year. Critt, is an unforgettable listening experience. You will find that this nationally-acclaimed, breathtaking story, in a stirring narration by C. But this endurance exacts an immense price from them in return. The Cook family, and the farm community around them, are part of a mosaic that is as enduring as the fences and fields of the broad midwestern landscape. As each couple struggles with their own tragedies and challenges, they know their father is judging them in light of the weighty inheritance that hovers within their reach. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. By turns poignant, insightful, and outrageous, it is Jane Smiley at her funniest and most slyly astute.Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley's spellbinding novel also headed best-seller lists for many months. But, Joe wonders, is this winning, free-spirited (already married) woman really the one he s been waiting for?Good Faith is an extraordinary story about ordinary people caught up in the exotic 1980s version of the American Dream - as greed and financial game-playing of the highest and newest order explode on Main Street. But are his ideas about how to get rich - really rich - too big and risky for Joe? And what about the real estate development at Salt Key Farm: why is the local savings and loan so eager to lend Marcus and Joe the money for its asking price? And there's Felicity - the daughter of Joe's business partner - who has finally confessed how fond she is of Joe. Marcus should know: he's just quit his job with the tax man. And, as Marcus Burns (Joe's new friend from New York) says, the old rules are ready to be broken.
It is 1982, morning in America, and temptation is everywhere. Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again.
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