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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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, loo ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$43.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...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
$29.99 NZD
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
Champion Horse (Abby Lovitt #4) by Jane Smiley
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Abby Lovitt
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her hor ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
Dickens by Jane Smiley
$24.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A biography of one of the best-loved authors in the English language, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of thos ...Show more
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
$19.99 NZD
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
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
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