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Title	:	The Believers
Author	:	Zoë Heller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 307 pages
Published	:	2008 by HarperCollins Publishers
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

The Believers

Zoë Heller

Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages

Rating: 3.36 | 5074 Users | 846 Reviews

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Zoë Heller, author of Notes on a Scandal and Everything You Know has written a comic, tragic tale about one family’s struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt.

When Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine her ideas about their forty-year marriage. Joel’s children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling discovery themselves, but for the time being, they are grappling with their own dilemmas. Rosa is being pressed to make a commitment to religion. Karla is falling in love with the owner of a newspaper concession and Lenny is back on drugs. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to re-examine long-held articles of faith and to decide what – if anything – they still believe in.

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Original Title:	The Believers
ISBN:	0670916129 (ISBN13: 9780670916122)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York,2002(United States)
Literary Awards:	Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)

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Every once in a while you pick up a book with little hype and you get blown away. Believers was that book for me - a soap opera worthy storyline that comes as close to an entertaining piece of art - thanks to uninhibited writing! The title 'Believers' I imagined a subtle play on different type of beliefs - be it marital, faith, trust, confidence! (A fan sees things that even the author didn't maybe.. excuse)The Litvinoffs family hits a fork in the road when the popular socialist humanitarian

When choosing this book, I never expected it to be so great. When the father of a family, a lawyer in NY, gets seriously ill, life as people know it, starts to change. This change is sometimes abrupt, but mostley only gradually. Each family member has to come to term with grief, with secrets from the past and tries to adapt to new knowledge instead of old beliefs. The book is A great social satire, written in a clear and elegant style. The characters arent very likable, but they are very human

A very engaging read about a very real, very dysfunctional family. The characters are really well portrayed.

In a recent q & a following an interview with Zoe Heller, a woman who had already read this latest book complained that the characters were not likable, that she wouldn't want to have any of them for a friend. Unflappable, Heller rejoined that one shouldn't go looking for friends between the pages of books. Now that I've read the book, I have to disagree with the complainant. Yes, the mother and her two daughters at the center of this book have unattractive qualities, but that only makes

It's well-written.It flows well.The characters are all people I'd like to throw under a bus. I've heard it said that it's not the job of an author to create characters you want to be best friends with. Okay, so maybe there are authors who like to explore themes and big ideas, and in doing so create a story with a purpose beyond storytelling. And maybe not all characters should be likable because it won't create any conflict and the story will be kind of flat and boring. However, there are enough

This is one of those books that make me wonder why restrict ratings to just 5 stars. The discussions on spirituality, religion, orthodoxy, above all Audrey and the reviews from friends was what prompted me to take up this book immediately. I was very much awed by Zoe Hellers creepy and cold narration in her What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal and wanted to take up this book later, so that expectations dont go awry. Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. Every belief system is built on

Set in Hellers adoptive US The Believers is a funny, highly original and adroit satire of New Yorks liberal elite. The title, a wicked irony in itself, belies the books central characters, the Litvinoff tribe - a family of hard line antitheists who have rejected their Jewish heritage and proudly live by socialist values. The father Joel is a charismatic civil rights lawyer, his wife Audrey a raging pot smoking ultra-leftist. Their façade is shattered when Joel suffers a massive stroke and