It is the early '80s, one of the periodic so-called golden ages in America, where acquisition and consumption are more than economic indicators. He crosses paths with Marcus Burns, a former Internal Revenue official, who has big dreams and big plans. He is well liked, honorable and moderately successful. The protagonist, Joe Stafford, is a middle-aged real estate broker on the mend from a recent divorce. Good Faith is the story of a group of small town real estate people- builders, brokers, bankers and developers-who are presented with the possibility of a big-time payoff. Jane Smiley lives in California with her three children, three dogs and sixteen horses. She has written essays on politics, farming, horse training, child rearing, impulse buying and a wide variety of other subjects for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Allure, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine and countless others. Jane Smiley taught at Iowa State University from 1981 until 1996. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St Louis, attended Vassar College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jane Smiley is the author of The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres (which was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1992), Moo, Horse Heaven, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton and most recently, Good Faith.
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