Good Faith (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Smiley
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Eastern Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: Joey Stratford, Felicity Baldwin Ornquist, Gordon Baldwin, Marcus Burns, Jane Burns Johnson, Gottfried Nuelle
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Love or romance, 1980’s, Pennsylvania, Greed, Business or business people, Money, Property, Real estate, Naivete
- Locales: Pennsylvania
Joey Stratford, the first-person narrator of Jane Smiley’s Good Faith, is basically a good guy—a little boring, perhaps, but basically good. He gets his good qualities from his progenitors: His parents raised him right. They belong to an unnamed but decidedly unorthodox religious sect which requires them to pray far more than the average churchgoers and to eschew many worldly possessions. Because Joey grows up in a household where denial is deemed a virtue, his morality stays firmly in place. In his parents’ attempt to limit their attachment to this world, however, they...
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