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The Believers

Zoe Heller

"[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit."--New York Times

Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal with another tour-de-force on the meaning of faith, belief, and trust: The Believers. Tragic and comic, witty and intense, The Believers 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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Jan 19th, 2010
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.16in - 5.28in - 0.90in - 0.61lb
  • EAN: 9780061430213
  • Categories: LiterarySatireJewish

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About the Author

Heller, Zoe: -

Zoë Heller is the author of Everything You Know and What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and made into an acclaimed film starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Heller lives in New York.

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Praise for this book

"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

"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

"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

"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