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Джейн Смайли - автор 15 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Тысяча акров, Немного удачи, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Роман, удостоенный Пулитцеровской премии за 1992 год и положенный в основу сценария одноименного фильма с Мишель Пфайффер и Джессикой Лэнг в главных ролях. Роман, который критики называли выдающимся, завораживающим, пугающим, правдивым и прекрасным.Это история семейства Ларри Кука, хозяина огромной фермы площадью в тысячу акров, ставшей яблоком раздора для трех его дочерей: Джинни, Роуз и Кэролайн...
Великолепный роман от автора знаменитой "Тысячи акров"! Книга, в которой наряду с "Американской трагедией", "Гроздьями гнева" и "Молодыми львами" отразилась судьба Америки XX века: "бурные 20-е", потрясший страну кошмар Великой депрессии, Вторая мировая и, наконец, новый расцвет 50-х. Это история о двух мальчиках из семьи айовских фермеров, на чью долю выпадет увидеть и пережить все эти удивител...
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
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 a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the p...
Here is a stunning collection of five stories and a novella, written in Jane Smiley's clear and elegant prose, and filled with the unmistakable sound of real people going about the business--and pleasure--of real life. In the title novella, "THE AGE OF GRIEF," a man meditates on the vagaries of love and family life. Certain that his wife has fallen in love with someone else--and been spurned ...
"Smiley's stories lucidly explore the complexities of contemporary sexual and dometic life...the emotional and moral complexity that she uncovers in the characters of these resonant novellas confirms Jane Smiley's singular talent. ORDINARY LOVE AND GOOD WILL is an extraordinary achievement." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ORDINARY LOVE At a reunion with her grown children, a woman rec...
Book Description Today?s most celebrated writers explore the literary life in a second collection of inspiring and eye-opening essays In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running New York Times
From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for t...
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America. On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land s...
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 the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In...
In Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Jane Smiley's wonderful novel puts us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire breeders and restless track wives.
It is the morning after the Academy Awards. Max, an award-winning writer and his lover, Elena, are hosts to a house full of guests including their daughter, a movie star, a healer and an agent. Over the course of the next ten life-changing days, they share stories of Hollywood, watch movies and become entangled by the pool. Sparks fly and tension mounts as this unputdownable tale of love, war, sex...
