The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende

...growing up in America. The plot: it isn't 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 ...
...to find his place in the world. We follow him through jobs, education, Vietnam, marriages and children. Carmen/Tamar - Gregory's childhood friend and lifelong confidant. Early sexual experimentation leaves Carmen with a pregnancy she cannot handle and an abortion gone wrong. She adopts her brother's half Vietnamese orphan son, and through hard work manages some amazing things. There are some wonderful other characters - Judy, Gregory's enormous ...

Bryn_Pearson 17.12.2002 · Read full review
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Review of The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende

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 ...
...take directly and indirectly affects the entire universe, which must stay balanced to avoid chaos. The storyline of the book primarily follows the life of Gregory Reeves. His early boyhood is spent traveling around California stopping at various small towns to invite people to hear about The Infinite Plan, which has been written and designed by Gregory's father. Although the lectures are free to the public, they make a little money from selling ...

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Review of The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende

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 ...

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Review of The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende