Jane Smiley

The Greenlanders is the story of one family - proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson....

To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of her obsession....

The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight....

Many astonishing and affecting things happen at the racetrack....

The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is: Does he have the gumption....

After bringing Earth to ruin, the age of humans is over. It is a blessing for some in this tender and tragic cautionary fable from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres....

From Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres: a pair of novellas chronicling difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families....

One of California’s leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005’s best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel....

Everyone has keys to Susan's New York apartment: all her friends, and friends of friends....

Kate Karlson's only focus in life is her Midwestern horse farm. But when her family dares to thwart her interests, the results bring tragedy and devastation....

Everyone at the large agricultural college dubbed Moo U. has an agenda. Whether it's massaging data, running secret experiments, or seducing the powerful....

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...

While her 77-year-old husband lies upstairs, dying, Anna Robison spends her depleting energy defending their home. Their daughters have invaded....

Paras, diminutivo di "Perestroika", è una vivace cavalla da corsa che vive alle porte di Parigi. Un pomeriggio, all'imbrunire, trova la porta della sua...