The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende
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Fiction - Modern Fiction - ISBN: 0002241919, 0006546846, 0060170166, 0060924985

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Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant...
more...preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family's lot, never questioning the validity of his father's homespun philosophy of life -- the Infinite Plan. But, as manhood approaches, Gregory finds himself increasingly possessed by a yearning to escape. Hankering after worldly wealth, he longs to break away from the barrio, the teeming Hispanic ghetto of downtown Los Angeles where his family has finally settled. Gregory's quest, so different from his father's, takes him first to the killing fields of Vietnam, and thence to law school at Berkeley from where he pitches headlong into a hedonistic pursuit of the American Dream!





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Fate weaves a web
Review of The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende by Bryn_Pearson

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...about plot, it is instead the intertwining narratives of several people's lives, and like lie there is a mixture of weird coincidence, total randomness, things that never tie up neatly and things that never quite happen. The characters - Gregory Reeves begins life on the road, his father is preaching his vision of 'the infinite plan' and the family are nomadic. When the father falls ill, they finaly settle down, living in a barrio full of latinos. ... Read review

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Review of The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende by ewiggvine

Advantages: well-developed characters
Disadvantages: Limited conversations between characters

The book begins with an unlikely family with uniquely different backgrounds and ideas all traveling together to present a sort of "New Age" tent revival somewhere around 1950. The Infinite Plan presentation and lecture invites attendees to open their minds to the role we play within the entire universe. The choices we make daily affect other people, and their decisions and actions may influence someone else's direction, and so on. The Infinite Plan ... Read review

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I was dissapointed with the Infinite Plan. There seems to be an attempt to regain the magic of the House of the Spirits which is doomed by the wholesale move to the United States. There are touches of magical realism here and there but they seem to be more formulaic than inspired. That said, this is not a bad book, it just had a lot to live up to. The characters live out their lives, crossing the occasional cultural divide and milestone. It is a book ... Read review

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