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Private Life
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4060-5 (1-4000-4060-4)
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Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4060-5 (1-4000-4060-4)
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The Georges and the Jewels
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-375-86227-4 (0-375-86227-7)
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Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-375-86227-4 (0-375-86227-7)
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Moo
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47276-2 (0-307-47276-0)
A reader and bookseller favorite from its first publication, Pulitzer Prize-winning, nationally bestselling author Jane Smiley's wickedly funny, darkly satiric novel is set in an agricultural college in the American heartland.
Here, in an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47276-2 (0-307-47276-0)
A reader and bookseller favorite from its first publication, Pulitzer Prize-winning, nationally bestselling author Jane Smiley's wickedly funny, darkly satiric novel is set in an agricultural college in the American heartland.
Here, in an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department... Read more >
Ten Days in the Hills
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3320-1 (1-4000-3320-9)
In the aftermath of the 2003 Academy Awards, Max and Elena- he's an Oscar-winning writer/director-open their Holywood Hills home to a group of friends and neighbors, industy insiders and hangers-on, eager to escape the outside world and dissect the latest news, gossip, and secrets of the business. Over the next ten... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3320-1 (1-4000-3320-9)
In the aftermath of the 2003 Academy Awards, Max and Elena- he's an Oscar-winning writer/director-open their Holywood Hills home to a group of friends and neighbors, industy insiders and hangers-on, eager to escape the outside world and dissect the latest news, gossip, and secrets of the business. Over the next ten... Read more >
The Fish Can Sing
Written by Halldor Laxness
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38605-2 (0-307-38605-8)
The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness’s most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor.
The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur... Read more >
Written by Halldor Laxness
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38605-2 (0-307-38605-8)
The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness’s most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor.
The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur... Read more >
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Ordinary Love and Good Will
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27909-5 (0-307-27909-X)
From Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres: a pair of novellas chronicling difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families.
In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman’s infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on her children long after her departure. Good... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27909-5 (0-307-27909-X)
From Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres: a pair of novellas chronicling difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families.
In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman’s infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on her children long after her departure. Good... Read more >
Ten Days in the Hills
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4061-2 (1-4000-4061-2)
A glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner: a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal—and the allure of the movies. With Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron as her model, Jane Smiley takes us through ten transformative, unforgettable days in the Hollywood hills.
It is the... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4061-2 (1-4000-4061-2)
A glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner: a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal—and the allure of the movies. With Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron as her model, Jane Smiley takes us through ten transformative, unforgettable days in the Hollywood hills.
It is the... Read more >
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3318-8 (1-4000-3318-7)
Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. “Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?” raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3318-8 (1-4000-3318-7)
Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. “Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?” raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different... Read more >
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The Greenlanders
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9546-9 (1-4000-9546-8)
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.
Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9546-9 (1-4000-9546-8)
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.
Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of... Read more >
A Year at the Races
Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3317-1 (1-4000-3317-9)
“Every horse story is a love story,” writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this... Read more >
Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3317-1 (1-4000-3317-9)
“Every horse story is a love story,” writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this... Read more >
Duplicate Keys
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7602-4 (1-4000-7602-1)
Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New York’s erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice space with... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7602-4 (1-4000-7602-1)
Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New York’s erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice space with... Read more >
Charlotte Temple
Written by Susanna Rowson
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7121-7 (0-8129-7121-3)
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Written by Susanna Rowson
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7121-7 (0-8129-7121-3)
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Good Faith
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72105-9 (0-385-72105-6)
Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts—comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit—to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72105-9 (0-385-72105-6)
Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts—comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit—to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens... Read more >
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A Thousand Acres
A Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3383-6 (1-4000-3383-7)
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3383-6 (1-4000-3383-7)
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a... Read more >
The Age of Grief
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72187-5 (0-385-72187-0)
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of A Thousand Acres.
In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72187-5 (0-385-72187-0)
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of A Thousand Acres.
In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends... Read more >
Horse Heaven
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-00541-5 (0-449-00541-0)
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Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-00541-5 (0-449-00541-0)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
or, Life among the Lowly
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75693-1 (0-375-75693-0)
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment... Read more >
or, Life among the Lowly
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75693-1 (0-375-75693-0)
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment... Read more >
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
A Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-91083-2 (0-449-91083-0)
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-91083-2 (0-449-91083-0)
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky... Read more >
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