The Infinite Plan

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

Growing up in 1940s Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves outlook on life was always guided by two beliefs. The first: his fear of death was something to be conquered. The second: his fathers radical religious doctrine, The Infinite Plan, was immutably true.

But when he leaves the barrio where he spent his youth for Berkeley, San Francisco, both beliefs are called into question. Soon he has graduated from college, and finds himself in the thick of the Vietnam War. And when he returns, how can he possibly think of life and death in the same way

Following one mans journey through the twentieth century, The Infinite Plan asks: how much can the American reality shape ones pursuit of the American Dream

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Devotees of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allendes great fairy-tale novel about Chile, will rejoice to find again in her new novel the magical storytellers touch that transforms life into a compelling emotional adventure, leaving one breathless * Daily Mail *
An artful blend of aching realism and provocative meditation * Booklist *
A richly embroidered, ambitious tale ... Intensely imagined * Publishers Weekly *

Author Bio

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is a literary living legend and phenomenon. With 77 million books sold, she is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. A novelist, feminist and philanthropist, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.