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“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.” (Boston Globe)“Spellbinding. . . . Allende has caught the mood of our spiritually troubled times with uncanny precision and insight.” (Miami Herald)“Allende writes with passion and conviction.... Her new novel is ambitious in scope.” (Christian Science Monitor)“A richly embroidered, ambitious tale...intensely imagined.” (Publishers Weekly)“An artful blend of aching realism and provocative meditation.” (Booklist) From the Inside Flap In The Infinite Plan , critically acclaimed, bestselling author Isabel Allende weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. It is the story of Gregory Reeves and his hard journey from L.A.'s Hispanic barrio to the killing fields of Vietnam to the frenetic world of a San Francisco lawyer. Along the way, he loses himself in an illusory and wrongheaded quest, and only by circling back to his roots can he find what he is missing and what he wants more than anything in life. --Miami Herald In The Infinite Plan , critically acclaimed, bestselling author Isabel Allende weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. It is the story of Gregory Reeves and his hard journey from L.A.'s Hispanic barrio to the killing fields of Vietnam to the frenetic world of a San Francisco lawyer. Along the way, he loses himself in an illusory and wrongheaded quest, and only by circling back to his roots can he find what he is missing and what he wants more than anything in life. Isabel Allende is the author of twelve works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, Inés of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune , and a novel that has become a world-renowned classic, T he House of the Spirits . Born in Peru and raised in Chile, she lives in California. Read more
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- “Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.” —
- Boston Globe
- “Allende is a genius.” —
- Los Angeles Times Book Review
- From Isabel Allende, the beloved
- New York Times
- bestselling author of
- Inés of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia
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- The House of the Spirits
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- The Infinite Plan
- : a vivid and engrossing tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect.
- Gregory Reeves’ father is a self-styled preacher who wanders the American West with his family in a caravan during the 1940s, preaching “The Infinite Plan,” a divine vision of the meaning of life and the nature of the universe. But when the preacher falls ill, the family abandons its nomadic ways and settles in a Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles. Gregory begins a new life in a Spanish-speaking world: school (for the first time), gangs, sex, books and ideas, and work. As he explores the mysterious world of the barrio, he meets the people who will shape his future, among them Pedro and Inmaculada Morales, who become his surrogate parents and provide him with the love and security his own family cannot give him.
- As Gregory’s story unfolds, the tides of history beckon him—persecution by gangs in the barrio, the horrors of the war in Vietnam. After his return from Vietnam, Gregory becomes a lawyer in San Francisco, where he pursues money and possessions, looks for love with the wrong women, parties, abuses alcohol, and neglects his children. Soon he is left with nothing but a choice and a past to reckon with.
