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A Year at the Races : Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck from Knopf Price: $15.40 Customer Review:  Basically, the nonfiction version of the utterly moronic Horse Heaven. Jane Smiley bought a couple of thoroughbreds who couldn't run worth a damn. This book is her attempt to recoup her losses off of you. If you're clueless enough to pay for it, that's your issue. |
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Good Faith from Anchor Price: $11.16 Customer Review:  I have been an unabashed Jane Smiley fan for many years. I thought that "Moo" and "Horse Heaven" were two of the best novels of the past ten years. I am sorry I can't say that about "Good Faith." Jane Smiley is one of our best writers so it came as no surprise that this novel was well observed and... |
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A Thousand Acres : A Novel from Anchor Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres," is about a father, and his decision to turn over his 1,000-acre farm to his three daughters. Larry Cook, the father, is a tough man and decides to cut his daughter Caroline out of the deal because she doesn't like the fact that he is giving away the farm, which... |
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Deborah Butterfield from Harry N Abrams Price: $34.00 Customer Review:  My heart swells with pride and admiration. What a wonderful tribute to an artist that completely captures the spirit and nature of the majesic equine beast she loves. The line and content of her work is perfect. How marvelous that her work is across the nation, how poetic and musical is the word... |
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Horse Heaven (Ballantine Reader's Circle) from Ballantine Books Price: $10.47 Customer Review: Jane Smiley did a wonderful job on this book. I have never read any of her other novels, but I intend to do so now. I bought this book because I love horses and it had gotten good reviews in all different magazines and on television. I'm happy to say that I was not at all disappointed. The... |
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The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection (World of the Sagas) from Penguin Books Price: $14.00 Customer Review: For the price offered ($16) this is an amazing bargain. For the cost of two Penguin translations (2 Sagas) you get 9 sagas and multiple tales. Speaking as a person that bought the hardback the paperback is not missing anything as far as I can tell by comparing tables of contents. However, earlier... |
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Moo from Ivy Books Price: $7.99 Customer Review: Moo is Jane Smiley's terrific send-up of education, bureaucracy, racism, politics, love and just about everything else in the 1980s. Set in a fictional Iowa university town, Moo U. is as much fun as a roller-coaster ride and features a cast of characters that are nothing short of hilarious. There... |
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Charles Dickens: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives) from Harry N. Abrams Price: $13.97 Customer Review: This lively book provides an overview of the literary achievements and personal life of Charles Dickens. For those Amazon.com customers who, like me, don't know how to approach this writer's vast achievements, I provide this advice from Smiley, who is an intelligent, charming, and enthusiastic... |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or Life Among the Lowly (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Price: $8.95 Customer Review: Uncle Tom's Cabin is a touching story about slavery in the mid 1800's and the influence of God on their faith in life. This novel is a graphic description of the horrid life of slaves and the strength it took for them to endure it. Many scenes in this book contain horrible gory things although I... |
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) from Ballantine Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  I just finished "Lidie Newton" last night and I have to say I'm still divided on whether I'd recommend this book. I guess the best way to qualify it is that I'm not sure I'd suggest it to a friend, but I'd definitely like it if my daughters read it. I make my home in Kansas City and so the... |
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The Greenlanders from Ballantine Books Price: $10.50 Customer Review: I am a huge Jane Smiley fan, and I couldn't wait to read this book--all 550 pages of it. Written in the style of a traditional nordic saga, the language is formal, the narrative sprawling and interspersed with (sidetracked by?) traditional legends. The tone is evenly stoical throughout; when main... |
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Ordinary Love and Good Will : Two Novellas from Ballantine Books Price: $12.95 Customer Review: Smiley gives us an intimate view into two very different families and the ways in which their different parenting styles affected their children's lives irrevocably. Smiley is a master of character development. When each story begins, you have a certain view of the protagonist and other characters.... |
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The Age of Grief from Anchor Books/Doubleday Price: $9.60 Customer Review: I recommend this volume for the title novella, which has recently been made into a movie titled "The Secret Life of Dentists." Told from the point of view of a suspicious husband, it's a warm, very believable story which manages to carry some suspense until its resolution (no spoiler here). The... |
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The Return of the Native (Signet Classics (Paperback)) from Signet Classics Price: $5.95 Customer Review: I laughed out loud as i read the first sentence: I had forgotten until i read it that it is quoted by Monty Python in their hilarious "Novel-Writing" sketch. But that might well be the only time i laughed during the book; this is not a humorous book but rather, like "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" ~... |
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Barn Blind from Ballantine Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review: im sorry jane-but this book was so boring. you develop the characters for the first 6 chapters and nothing really happens in those chapters. I mean john screws up, margaret crys, henry spys on John, kate and axel fight and thats about it. the last chapter is alright but there's no point to the book.... |
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The Best American Short Stories 1995 from Houghton Mifflin Co Price: $12.95 Customer Review: My review of this collection is completely biased because of the fact that I appear as a character in one of the short stories. The story is "Hand Jive" by Andrew Cozine and he mentions me by name with the claim that he and I were the smartest students in school. He also goes on to criticize the... |
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Life As We Know It : A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com from Washington Square Press Price: $11.20 Customer Review: There is something beautifully eerie about the accuracy with which "Life As We Know It" depicts the rhythm of existence and its inherent jarring; one emerges from reading with the sense of having lived more years than chronologically accurate, or at least of having gained the experiential wisdom... |
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Writers on Writing, Volume II: More Collected Essays from The New York Times from Times Books Price: $16.80 |
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Duplicate Keys from Ballantine Books Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Although Duplicate Keys is not a bad novel, it does not compare to Jane Smiley's previous work. The novel essentially details the way two murders affect the relationships among a circle of friends. Although Smiley's prose is a step up from other murder mysteries, the plotting does not compel the... |
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AT PARADISE GATE: A NOVEL from Touchstone Price: $9.60 Customer Review: It's rare that I finish a book and conclude that the author is a person I probably wouldn't like very much, but that's exactly what I experienced with "At Paradise Gate." When the characters in this humorless tale speak, they utter paragraphs at a time -- long, weighty diatribes of the sort that no... |
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All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie N from Flamingo |
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Ordinary Love from Flamingo |
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The Sagas of Icelanders Prepak from Penguin Books Price: $100.00 |
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Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories) from Applewood Books Price: $10.47 Customer Review: Nancy Drew receives a letter from a London person. She reads the letter and descovers large amounts of money. She figures there is another Nancy Drew to be found and so she goes on a mission to find this other Nancy Drew.Her friends Bess and George tag along to help her solve this Mystery. To find... |
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All True Travels & Adventures from Random House Value Pub Price: $5.99 |
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