Jane Smiley

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Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books visa mer include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnen: Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane, Janes Smiley, Smíley Jane, Ed. Jane Smiley, preface Jane Smiley, Jane Jane; Smiley Smiley, SIGNED decorated endpapers Jane Smiley

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The Last Hundred Years Trilogy

Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

Ellen & Ned

Verk av Jane Smiley

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Tusen tunnland (1991) 6,049 exemplar

Moo (1995) 2,500 exemplar

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) 1,324 exemplar

Some Luck (2014) 1,242 exemplar

Horse Heaven (2000) 1,123 exemplar

Grönländarna (1988) 1,111 exemplar

Good Faith (2003) 881 exemplar

Thirteen ways of looking at the novel (2005) 876 exemplar

Private Life (2010) 716 exemplar

Duplicate Keys (1984) 715 exemplar

Ten Days in the Hills (2007) 637 exemplar

Early Warning (2015) 557 exemplar

The Age of Grief (1987) 542 exemplar

Ordinary Love and Good Will (1989) 491 exemplar

Golden Age (2015) 425 exemplar

Barn Blind (1979) 380 exemplar

Charles Dickens (2002) 361 exemplar

Perestroika in Paris (2020) 309 exemplar

At Paradise Gate (1981) 305 exemplar

The Best American Short Stories 1995 (1995) — Redaktör — 298 exemplar

A Dangerous Business (2022) 264 exemplar

Twenty Yawns (2016) 233 exemplar

The Georges and the Jewels (2009) 214 exemplar

A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004) 210 exemplar

The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (2010) 176 exemplar

A Good Horse (2010) 151 exemplar

Great American Short Stories (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions) (2012) — Inledning — 111 exemplar

True Blue: Book Three of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch (2011) 91 exemplar

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (2019) 80 exemplar

Best New American Voices 2006 (2005) 79 exemplar

Pie in the Sky (2012) 61 exemplar

Gee Whiz (2013) 41 exemplar

The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft (1993) 30 exemplar

A Thousand Acres [1997 film] (1997) — Författare — 28 exemplar

The Hillside (2018) 25 exemplar

The Strays of Paris (2020) 18 exemplar

Riding Lessons (2018) 14 exemplar

Catskill crafts : artisans of the Catskill Mountains (1987) 14 exemplar

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom (2023) 10 exemplar

Los Premios Pulitzer de novela (IV) (1985) 6 exemplar

Saddles & Secrets (2019) 5 exemplar

Taking the Reins (2020) 5 exemplar

Lucky 4 exemplar

Portraits d'après nature, précédé de "Un amour ordinaire" (1995) 3 exemplar

Lucky 3 exemplar

Private Life by Jane Smiley (3-Mar-2011) Paperback (1600) 3 exemplar

Schön, dass du hier bist (1987) 2 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn: Smiley, Jane
Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Smiley, Jane Graves
Födelsedag: 1949-09-26
Kön: female
Nationalitet: USA
Födelseort: Los Angeles, California, USA
Bostadsorter: Los Angeles, California, USA
Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
Iceland
Utbildning: Vassar College (B.A.|1971)
University of Iowa (M.A.|1975|M.F.A.|1976)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1978)
John Burroughs School
Yrken: novelist
professor
Organisationer: University of California, Riverside
Iowa State University
Priser och utmärkelser: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1997)
Fulbright scholarship
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2006)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1992)
O. Henry Award (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001) (visa alla 9)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1992)
Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (1999)
PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (2006)
Agent: Molly Friedrich (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)

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Diskussioner

Jane Smiley: American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (april 2016)

June 2011 Read: Private Life i Missouri Readers (juni 2011)

Recensioner

A Thousand Acres av Jane Smiley

A well written - effective - novel that kept me turning the pages just to know what would happen next, but I don't think that's good enough motivation for reading a book. It reminded me of a perfectly good mainstream movie, the kind that sucks you in with its acting and photography and music while you watch it but which is immediately forgettable afterwards because you never really believed in or cared for the characters and the plot was just too predictable and unrealistic.
I had no problems finishing this long novel in a sitting and that might automatically count for a good grade for some, but I was only rather mildly interested and entertained, not emotionally involved or thrilled by virtuoso writing. I'd rather be alternately annoyed and amused by a more uneven, less "well made" novel!
Also, I felt there were some plot elements that were just too much, supposedly "shocking" but quite unbelievable and too conventionally handled. As previous reviewers have suggested, they may be modelled on the author's reading of King Lear rather than on any faithfulness to her own story. Since I felt rather detached from the entire narrative, though, those elements weren't exactly jarring, only slightly disappointing.… (mer)

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