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The Infinite Plan

by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden
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Overview

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.

Synopsis

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.

Boston Globe

Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.

About the Author, Isabel Allende

Aristocratic Chile is vividly evoked in Isabel Allende s lyrical novels, in which a family s past and future is linked inextricably with that of its country s. A writer whose dreamy, imagistic books transport the reader to another time and place, Allende is considered by many to be the heir to Gabriel García Márquez s lavish magic realism.

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Editorials

Miami Herald

"Spellbinding. . . . Allende has caught the mood of our spiritually troubled times with uncanny precision and insight."

Booklist

"An artful blend of aching realism and provocative meditation."

Christian Science Monitor

"Allende writes with passion and conviction.... Her new novel is ambitious in scope."

Boston Globe

"Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade."

Boston Globe

“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”

Miami Herald

“Spellbinding. . . . Allende has caught the mood of our spiritually troubled times with uncanny precision and insight.”

Christian Science Monitor

“Allende writes with passion and conviction.... Her new novel is ambitious in scope.”

Booklist

“An artful blend of aching realism and provocative meditation.”

Boston Globe

Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.

Boston Globe

Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.

Mary Mackey

Her new tour de force...a fascinating America seen from an Anglo/Hispanic perspective. -- San Francisco Examiner

Susan Miron

"Spellbinding....Allende has caught the mood of our spiritually troubled times with uncanny precision and insight. --Miami Herald

Robert Lyle

"Isabelle Allende moves into new territory for her fiction....The Infinite Plan has more vision and ambition." -- New York Times Book Review

Book Details

Published
April 1, 2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages
402
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780061976827

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