''The Infinite Plan'' () is a 1991 novel by

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as '' The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

. The novel follows the protagonist, North American Greg Reeves through fives decades of his life, as he rises from a childhood in LA, through the Vietnam war and finally later life crises. The first printing of the novel in English had 100,000 copies. The ''Los Angeles Times'' compared the novel to works by

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, and James T. Farrell.

Reception

''Publishers Weekly'' is critical of the novel, describing the protagonist as "unsympathetic character", which " readers may have

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of his self-destructive behavior." Similarly, the ''L.A Times'' was critical, saying that in the novel "Allende has thrown away images, style and magic in this new book", when compared to the successful style of ''

The House of the Spirits ''The House of the Spirits'' (, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, an ...

''. ''The Independent'' was generally positive about the novel, but concludes that the later parts of the novel, set in the 80s, "lose heart", becoming boring with very little excitement or good charactersizations.

References

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