True Believers : A Novel (Paperback)

from MEENIEREADS

I requested this novel from my local library because I was interested in the whole mystery of this famous,accomplished woman, the main character Karen Hollander. I had heard the author discuss James Bond books,and all things late 60's on NPR. As a literary device the author has Karen,a well known...

from sdunford

I'm a couple of years younger than the main character in this book. But not so much younger as to remember the craziness of the error. I graduated from high school in 1968, wen to college and joined SDS. I went to demonstrations, got tear gassed, and got radicalized. For a few years it was like l...

from reb922

True Believers is told from the point for view of Karen Hollander, jumping back and forth from the mid late 60's to about two years from present time. In the midst of writing her memoirs she seeks out more information regarding some big dangerous act her and some friends almost preformed in '68. ...

from cougargirl1967

I enjoyed this book, having thought it was complete fiction and not being aware that a few characters may have been modeled after real people, I thought it was very well informed with the feeling of the generation. I must say though that the "female" voice often missed the mark, maleness oozed th...

from srtsrt

Another book about my generation - yes, I'm a boomer. I worry that my growing nostalgia for my youth predisposes me to liking this new novel by Kurt Andersen. Fortunately, I have read a previous work of his that I also enjoyed (Heyday) which wasn't about the 1960s. The protagonist of this novel i...