A collection of often humorous short stories by the prize-winning American writer, each of which is an account of contemporary domestic life in crisis.

The Age of Grief

Literature & Fiction

Smiley, Jane.

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

"HAUNTING."--The New York Times Book ReviewJane Smiley, the Pultizer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, gives us a magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail about the day-to-day joys and innumerable hardships of remarkable people, The Greenlanders is also the compelling story of one family--proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Echoing the simple power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings a remote civilization to life and shows how it was very like our own."TOTALLY COMPELLING . . . FASCINATING . . . In the manner of the big books of the nineteenth century, in which complex family and community matters unravel--Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy--The Greenlanders sweeps the reader along. . . . Jane Smiley is a true storyteller."--The Washington Post"A POWERFUL, MOVING STUDY OF HUMAN FRAILTY AND THE EPHEMERAL NATURE OF COURAGE AND LOVE."--USA Today"WONDERFUL . . . A HISTORICAL NOVEL WITH THE NEARNESS OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION."--The New Republic"[AN] EPIC MASTERPIECE . . . SPELLBINDING."--Newsday

The Greenlanders

KNOPF

THE GREENLANDERS.

Flamingo

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Review Copy with publisher's promotional flyer

THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON.

KNOPF. NY 1998

A collection of often humorous short stories by the prize-winning American writer, each of which is an account of contemporary domestic life in crisis.

A Thousand Acres

Paperback. Pub Date :2004-05-04 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK The Pulitzer Prize-winning. bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County. Iowa. and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness.Proud and possessive. his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters. is disarmingly uncharacteristic.Ginny and Rose. the two eldest. are startled yet eager to accept. but Caroline . the youngest daughter. has misgivings.Immediately. her father cuts her out.In A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day. and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it.This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards. the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Cir...

Fawcett Columbine

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 ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old granddaughter. By the author of "A Thousand Acres".

At Paradise Gate (Flamingo original)

Romance

Brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university. Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University is in a state of disarray! In this witty and biting comedy of manners, Jane Smiley turns her wryly perceptive eye towards a community where men and women, the innocent and the cynical, thinkers and careerists, live and work together -- in complete disharmony. 'Satire on a grand scale, a microscopic examination of contemporary American mores conducted with great wit and gracious indulgence for human frailty !Trying to describe this book's marvellous variety is like trying to describe London to someone who has never been there. The only appropriate exhortation is "Read it."'

MOO.

Literary

KNOPF. NY 1995

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The Age of Grief

The Greenlanders

THE GREENLANDERS.

Moo

THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON.

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

The Age of Grief

A Thousand Acres

At Paradise Gate (Flamingo original)

MOO.