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JANE SMILEY is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and more than ten other works of fiction, as well as three works of nonfiction, including a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in northern California.
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The Georges and the Jewels
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.99
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.99
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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A Thousand Acres
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $14.95
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 >
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
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 >
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Moo
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $15.95
Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $15.95
Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors... Read more >
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Horse Heaven
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY
STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." --People
"ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery
of craft and an uncompromising vision that grow more powerful with each
book . . ... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY
STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." --People
"ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery
of craft and an uncompromising vision that grow more powerful with each
book . . ... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Days in the Hills
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
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 >
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The Fish Can Sing
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Year at the Races
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $13.95
“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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $13.95
“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 >
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Ordinary Love and Good Will
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
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 >
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The Age of Grief
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
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 >
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The Greenlanders
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
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 >
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $14.95
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres
"Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."
--Los Angeles Times
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $14.95
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres
"Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."
--Los Angeles Times
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place... Read more >
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Duplicate Keys
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
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 >
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Good Faith
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.95
Greed. Envy. Sex. Property. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter.
Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it’s 1982, and even in Joe’s small town, values... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.95
Greed. Envy. Sex. Property. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter.
Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it’s 1982, and even in Joe’s small town, values... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Georges and the Jewels
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $19.99
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $19.99
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the... Read more >
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Charlotte Temple
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.00
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley
First published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.00
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley
First published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Days in the Hills
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $26.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $26.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Ten Days in the Hills
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Jane Smiley in Large Print
* About Large Print
All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Jane Smiley in Large Print
* About Large Print
All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Charlotte Temple
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley
First published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley
First published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Private Life
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $26.95
A stunning novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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 Missouri town has ever produced... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $26.95
A stunning novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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 Missouri town has ever produced... Read more >
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Private Life
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $40.00
A stunning novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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 Missouri town has ever produced... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $40.00
A stunning novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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 Missouri town has ever produced... Read more >
Private Life
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $22.50
A stunning novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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 Missouri town has ever produced... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $22.50
A stunning novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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 Missouri town has ever produced... Read more >
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