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Good Faith

Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS. But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver?

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  • "Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS. But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver?"@en
  • "Dans les années 80, aux Etats-Unis, l'élection de Ronald Reagan à la présidence annonce une période de mirages où le rêve américain semble accessible à tous. Joe Stratford, le narrateur, se lance ainsi dans une opération immobilière avec Marcus Burns, ex-agent du fisc qui n'a qu'une idée en tête : gagner un maximum d'argent. Joe, manipulé, se retrouve alors victime d'une énorme escroquerie."
  • "The year is 1982, and cheerful, honest, amiable realtor Joe Stratford finds himself caught up in a land deal put together by his friend and mentor Gordon Baldwin. Joe's in love with Gordon's married daughter, Felicity, and as soon as they begin an affair Joe's cosy life seems near-complete. However, when Marcus Burns, an appealing investment counsellor and former IRS agent, joins in and offers to fix Gordon's severe tax situation, things begin to spiral out of control. Soon Marcus is conniving, scheming, and inveigling even more deals, taking advantage of people and situations wherever he can."@en
  • "New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced, and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiastic about his get-rich-quick plans, but are they the right plans for Joe? And why is the local savings and loan so eager to lend Joe and Marcus the money they need to complete a huge feal estate transaction?"@en
  • "A novel of greed and self-delusion set in the economic boom of the 1980s. Joe Stratford, a divorced 40-year old realtor, wants a new start. Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent, has some get-rich-quick schemes he thinks will interest Joe. Joe betrays his principles to go along with the schemes."
  • "Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned: Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS. But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what's the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime? And then there's Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning (and married) daughter of Joe's mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she's just been waiting for him to be available. The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention-to Marcus and to Felicity-and reap the rewards? Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages (every Main Street an El Dorado). To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form."@en
  • "Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Broadsides"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Novela psicológica"@es
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Novela humorística"@es

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  • "Good faith : [a novel]"
  • "In gutem Glauben Roman"
  • "Good Faith"@en
  • "Good Faith"
  • "Good faith [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]"@en
  • "En toute bonne foi"
  • "Good faith [sound recording (unabridged audiobook)]"@en
  • "De buena fe"
  • "De buena fe"@es
  • "In goed vertrouwen"
  • "Good faith a novel"@en
  • "Good faith : a novel"@en
  • "Good faith : a novel"
  • "Good faith"
  • "Good faith"@en
  • "In gutem Glauben"

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