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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Over her 20-year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously co ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser.
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 daugh ...Show more
An Innocent Abroad : Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has ...Show more
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, ov ...Show more
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy Book 2) (C-format) by Jane Smiley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores ...Show more
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges ...Show more
Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy 3 by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have s ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years 1
The first instalment in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's masterpiece - a trilogy following one family over a hundred years 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary ...Show more
The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The life-affirming grown-up fable we all need . . . Jane Smiley has created a world where kindness is king' - Washington Independent Review 'Smiley has started to look like the best living American novelist' - Observer 'Delightful, heartwarming . . . An especially welcome reminder of the bright spots ...Show more
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