Faith Fox - Hardcover

Gardam, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078671221X ISBN 13: 9780786712212

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Emotionally abandoned by her father and maternal grandmother when her birth results in her mother's death, young Faith Fox is raised by an unlikely group including the priest-and-hippie owners of a commune, a group of Tibetan refugees, and her ancient and bickering paternal grandparents.

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Review:

Praise for Faith Fox

"An endearing story. Gardam's feisty characters deliver a tale that crackles with charm and energy."
--Kirkus Review (Starred)

"Hugely funny and deeply moving."
--The Atlantic

"Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness."
--A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard

"Pure Pleasure."
--Anita Brooker, author of Hotel du Lac

Praise for Jane Gardam

"[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor."
--The Washington Post

"[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted."
--The New Yorker

Praise for Faith Fox

"Wonderful, sharply observed, deeply funny."
--The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"[A] cleverly wrought British import... That Gardam is a virtuoso of structure creps up on you until you begin to glimpse the outlines of the multiple subplots coverging with the satisfying click that reminds you that you're in the hands of a master."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"An endearing story. Gardam's feisty characters deliver a tale that crackles with charm and energy."
--Kirkus Review (Starred)

"Hugely funny and deeply moving."
--The Atlantic

"Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness."
--A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard

"Pure Pleasure."
--Anita Brooker, author of Hotel du Lac

Praise for Jane Gardam

"[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor."
--The Washington Post

"[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted."
--The New Yorker

Book Description:

* A brilliant, witty and moving novel about keeping the faith in extreme adversity

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 078671221X
• ISBN 13: 9780786712212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416