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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
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Verk av Jane Smiley

Tusen tunnland (1991) 6,138 exemplar
Moo (1995) 2,536 exemplar
Some Luck (2014) 1,257 exemplar
Horse Heaven (2000) 1,171 exemplar
Grönländarna (1988) 1,133 exemplar
Good Faith (2003) 895 exemplar
Private Life (2010) 730 exemplar
Duplicate Keys (1984) 724 exemplar
Ten Days in the Hills (2007) 642 exemplar
Early Warning (2015) 569 exemplar
The Age of Grief (1987) 550 exemplar
Ordinary Love and Good Will (1989) 505 exemplar
Golden Age (2015) 430 exemplar
Barn Blind (1979) 386 exemplar
Charles Dickens (2002) 364 exemplar
Perestroika in Paris (2020) 330 exemplar
At Paradise Gate (1981) 307 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1995 (1995) — Redaktör — 302 exemplar
A Dangerous Business (2022) 292 exemplar
Twenty Yawns (2016) 237 exemplar
The Georges and the Jewels (2009) 217 exemplar
Best New American Voices 2006 (2005) 80 exemplar
Pie in the Sky (2012) 61 exemplar
Gee Whiz (2013) 42 exemplar
A Thousand Acres [1997 film] (1997) — Författare — 28 exemplar
The Hillside (2018) 25 exemplar
The Strays of Paris (2020) 21 exemplar
Riding Lessons (2018) 17 exemplar
Lucky (2024) 9 exemplar
Taking the Reins (2020) 5 exemplar
Saddles & Secrets (2019) 5 exemplar
Lucky (2024) 5 exemplar
Schön, dass du hier bist (1987) 2 exemplar
Mood of Christmas 1 exemplar
In den Jahren der Trauer (1987) 1 exemplar

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Horse Stories (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
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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.
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Verk
51
Även av
40
Medlemmar
23,163
Popularitet
#910
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
700
ISBN
576
Språk
13
Favoritmärkt
63

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