· This third novel is more mature than Notes on a Scandal, and radically different in tone and subject matter. The Believers is at heart an American novel: a larger, more considered, layered Author: Joanna Briscoe. The beginning of The Believers is simply hilarious, and it's no wonder that the book made the Best Books of list by Publishers Weekly. Heller ridicules - often in a pretty vicious way - a certain type of self-righteous leftists whose holier-than-thou attitude sometimes conceals pettiness and unenviable nastiness/5(). · The Believers. by Zoë Heller. Publication Date: March 1, Genres: Fiction. Paperback: pages. Publisher: Harper Perennial. ISBN ISBN
The Believers - Zoe Heller. Posted on J | 5 Comments. Last night I just couldn't sleep, so thought I might as well finish reading The Believers by Zoe Heller. Unfortunately it was not the kind of book that makes you snooze! Zoë Heller's latest novel, The Believers, focuses on the idea of having faith in what you belong to - and vice versa - through several members of the Litvinoff family, who, we soon learn, are all insider-outsiders in their own way. Radical human-rights lawyer and left-wing darling Joel Litvinoff dominates. Zoë Heller has become "a master of misanthropy," said Heller McAlpin in the Los Angeles Times. Her latest novel—like her best-seller What Heller's "perverse wit" deftly exposes the "sanctimonious attitudes of true believers," religious and otherwise, said Connie Ogle in The Miami Herald.
The Believers. by Zoë Heller. Publication Date: March 1, Genres: Fiction. Paperback: pages. Publisher: Harper Perennial. ISBN ISBN "The Believers is an astonishingly well-observed slow burner, its virtuoso prose compressed and beautiful. Zoë Heller possesses true brilliance as a writer." - The Guardian (UK). Zoë Heller's latest novel, The Believers, focuses on the idea of having faith in what you belong to - and vice versa - through several members of the Litvinoff family, who, we soon learn, are all.
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