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109 produkter
Sagas of the Icelanders
Häftad, 2005
269 kr
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In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these …
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 1999
217 kr
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An American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres.Lidie Newton is an extraordinary female protagonist, a genuine Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isabel Archer.Lidie and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America’s …
Moo
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 1996
190 kr
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Brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university.Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University is in a state of disarray…In this witty and biting comedy of manners, Jane Smiley turns her wryly perceptive eye towards a community where men and women, the innocent …
Ordinary Love
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 2008
177 kr
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From the author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres, two novellas which showcase Jane Smiley’s unique gift for capturing the nuances of American domestic life.‘I have given my children the two cruellest gifts I had to give… the experience of perfect family happiness and the certain knowledge …
Sagas of the Icelanders
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2005
102 kr
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In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these …
Thousand Acres
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 1992
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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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 …
Duplicate Keys
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 1996
164 kr
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This novel tells the story of a group of six friends whose close and longstanding relationship begins to fall apart when two of them are brutally murdered. Suspicion falls on all of them as their infidelities and lies begin to come to the surface.
At Paradise Gate
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 1995
177 kr
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In his bedroom upstairs, 77-year-old Ike Robinson is dying. Down in the living room his wife, Anna, defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old granddaughter. By the author of "A Thousand Acres".
Barn Blind
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 2008
177 kr
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The verdant pastures of the Karlson farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the consuming obsession of a woman who sees in them the ultimate fulfilment of her every wish - to win, to be honoured, to be the best. Her vaulting …
Best New American Voices 2006
Av Jane Smiley, John Kulka m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
204 kr
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The best new American voices are heard here first: Writers like Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since …
Ten Days in the Hills
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2007
79 kr
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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. …
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
A Novel
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2007
236 kr
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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 …
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2008
158 kr
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An essential guide for writers and readers alike, here is Smiley’s great celebration of the novel. As she embarks on an exhilarating tour through one hundred titles—from classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to recent fiction by Zadie Smith and Alice Munro—she explores the power of …
Private Life
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2010
142 kr
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A riveting new 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 in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He’s the most …
Duplicate Keys
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2010
87 kr
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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 …
Age of Grief
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2011
189 kr
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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, …
Ordinary Love and Good Will
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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"The emotional and moral complexity that [Jane Smiley] uncovers in the characters of these resonant novellas confirms [her] singular talent. ORDINARY LOVE & GOOD WILL is an extraordinary achievement." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ORDINARY LOVE At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls …
Thousand Acres (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
A Novel
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who 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 …
Greenlanders
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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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 …
Moo
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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"DELECTABLY ENTERTAINING. . . . An uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest." --The New York Times Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution …
Dangerous Business
from the author of the Pulitzer prize winner A THOUSAND ACRES
Av Jane Smiley
E-bok, 2022
51 kr
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''I raced through this murder mystery'' Good Housekeeping , 10 Books to Read Right Now! ''Smiley is a masterful writer'' Sunday Times ''Outstanding. Her sentences are sublime'' Roxane Gay From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush …
A Dangerous Business
from the author of the Pulitzer prize winner A THOUSAND ACRES
Av Jane Smiley
Häftad, 2022
205 kr
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'I raced through this murder mystery' Good Housekeeping , 10 Books to Read Right Now! 'Smiley is a masterful writer' Sunday Times 'Outstanding. Her sentences are sublime' Roxane Gay From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush …
