Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres
$24.99 – Paperback book / Flamingo
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 disarmi... Buy or find out more →
Private Life
$33.00$12.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
A stunning novel which 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.... Buy or find out more →
Horse Heaven
$23.95 – Paperback book / Faber
It's not true,' says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate and brilliant new novel, 'that anything can happen at the racetrack, but many astonishing and affecting things do - and in Horse Heaven the universe of ... Buy or find out more →
13 Ways Of Looking At The Novel
$24.95 – Paperback book / Doubleday
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life
Over her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has wri... Buy or find out more →