Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1987. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and her novel Some Luck was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award. She is the...See more
Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1987. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and her novel Some Luck was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2024 Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times . She has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's , and The Nation . Her most recent novel, Lucky , was published in 2024. She lives in Carmel Valley, California. See less
Jane Smiley's Featured Books
Jane Smiley book reviews
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A Thousand Acres
Family dynamics
Smiley hit the nail on the head with dysfunctional familly dynamics. Her characters are true to life and reveal the disparity between performance for appearance sake and what goes on in secret. The ... Read More
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True Blue
Third in an excellent series
As with the first two books (The Georges and the Jewels is the first one), this book combines a good story with a lot of horse-lore. A child would not necessarily have to be horse-crazy to enjoy ... Read More
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Disappointing
by nutkin, Apr 26, 2007
It started with promise, but seemed to go nowhere. Too wordy, not enough action to keep my interest. I didn't finish it. I've not read any of the author's other works -- perhaps this was not the ... Read More