Books by Jane Smiley

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers, repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction ... More

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Set in medieval Greenland, this novel recounts the history of a community plagued with rivalries and feuds, famines and battles with Eskimos. ... More

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Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their ... More

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It is not true, says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, and brilliant new novel, that anything can happen at the racetrack, but many astonishing and ... More

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Reissue of this brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university. Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University ... More

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Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It is ... More

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On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max - an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned - and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still ... More

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These two novellas, by the author of The Age of Grief and The Greenlanders reveal the intricate and often heart-breaking inner workings of families. ... More

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The verdant pastures of the Karlson farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the ... More

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Smiley takes readers deep into the process of writing, sharing the secrets of her own habits and theories of creativity. She offers practical advice ... More

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"Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, ... More

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Smiley draws upon her first-hand knowledge of horses, as well as the wisdom of trainers, vets, jockeys and even a real-life horse whisperer, to ... More

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Smiley ("A Thousand Acres") presents an inviting horse novel for young readers, set in 1960s California horse country and ... More

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This novel tells the story of a group of six friends whose close and longstanding relationship begins to fall apart when two of them are brutally ... More

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In his bedroom upstairs, 77-year-old Ike Robinson is dying. Down in the living room his wife, Anna, defends the citadel of their marriage against an ... More

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From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens ... More

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The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Thousand Acres" makes her debut for young readers with this novel set on a California horse ranch ... More

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Novelist Jane Smiley offers an affectionate, informative group portrait of the 15 craftsmen and -women in the Catskill Mountains towns where their ... More

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These two novellas, by the author of The Age of Grief and The Greenlanders reveal the intricate and often heart-breaking inner workings of families. ... More

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With delectable wit and characteristic sensitivity, Smiley presents a fresh, illuminating take on the life of Charles Dickens. She offers ... More

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From an acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize winner comes an inviting horse novel for young readers, set in 1960s California horse country and featuring ... More

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An American classic from the author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres. * The kind of book today's novel readers dream of -- that elusive, ... More

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Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings ... More

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Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of how John Atanasoff, a professor of physics at the University of Iowa, hit on the idea that the ... More

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