Jane Smiley Libros Populares
Jane Smiley Biografía y Hechos
Jane Smiley (Los Ángeles (California), 26 de septiembre de 1949) es una novelista estadounidense. Smiley ganó el Premio Pulitzer en 1992 por su novela A Thousand Acres. Biografía Smiley nació en Los Ángeles (California) y fue criada en Webster Groves, un suburbio de San Luis (Misuri). Allí, se graduó de la John Burroughs School. Posteriormente obtuvo un Bachelor of Arts en la Universidad de Vassar y una maestría y un doctorado de la Universidad de Iowa. Mientras trabajaba en su doctorado, pasó un año estudiando en Islandia como parte del Programa Fulbright. Smiley publicó su primera novela, Barn Blind, en 1980 y, en 1985, ganó el Premio O. Henry por su cuento "Lily", el cual fue publicado en The Atlantic Monthly. Su novela de 1991 A Thousand Acres, basada en la obra El rey Lear, ganó el Premio Pulitzer a la Novela en 1992. Esta novela fue adaptada en la película hómonima de 1997. En 1995, escribió un guion para televisión para un episodio de Homicide: Life on the Street. Así mismo, en 2002, su novela corta The Age of Grief fue adaptada en la película The Secret Lives of Dentists. Entre 1981 y 1996, Smiley enseñó composición creativa en la Iowa State University. En 2001, fue elegida miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Obras Novelas 1980 – Barn Blind. 1981 – At Paradise Gate. 1984 – Duplicate Keys. 1988 – The Greenlanders. 1991 – A Thousand Acres. 1995 – Moo. 1998 – The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. 2000 – Horse Heaven. 2003 – Good Faith. 2007 – Ten Days in the Hills. 2010 – Private Life. 2014 – Some Luck. 2015, abril – Early Warning. 2015, octubre – Golden Age. 2020 – Perestroika in Paris. 2022 – A Dangerous Business. 2024 – Lucky. Novelas traducidas al español 1992 – Heredarás la tierra (A Thousand Acres, 1991), traducción de Iris Menéndez. Tusquets. 1995 – Mu U (Moo, 1995), traducción de Jordi Fibla. Tusquets. 2000 – Las fabulosas aventuras de Lidie Newton (The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, 1998), traducción de Roser Berdagué Costa. Tusquets. 2003 – El paraíso de los caballos (Horse Heaven, 2000), traducción de Roser Berdagué Costa. Tusquets. 2005 – De buena fe (Good Faith, 2003), traducción de Fernando Garí Puig. Tusquets. 2023 – Heredarás la tierra (A Thousand Acres, 1991), traducción de Inga Pellisa. Sexto Piso. Libros de cuentos 2019 – La edad del desconsuelo (The Age of Grief, 1987), traducción de Francisco Gonzáles López. Sexto Piso. 2020 – Un amor cualquiera (Ordinary Love, 1989), traducción de Francisco González López. Sexto Piso. 2021 – La mejor voluntad (Good Will, 1989), traducción de Inga Pellisa. Sexto Piso. No ficción 1989 – Catskill Crafts. 2003 – Charles Dickens. 2004 – A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck. 2005 – Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. 2010 – The Man Who Invented the Computer. Novela juvenil 2009 – The Georges and the Jewels (2009) 2010 – A Good Horse (2010) 2011 – True Blue (2011) 2013 – Pie in the Sky (2012) 2013 – Gee Whiz (2013) 2018 – Riding Lessons (2018) 2019 – Saddles and Secrets (2019) 2020 – Taking the Reins (2020) Enlaces externos Jane Smiley en Internet Movie Database (en inglés). "The unteachable ignorance of the red states", artículo escrito por Smiley en la revista Slate (en inglés) Entrevista de Jane Smiley con Identity Theory (en inglés). Descubre los libros populares de Jane Smiley. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Jane Smiley
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All Things Cease to Appear
Elizabeth Brundage'Ghosts, murder, a terrifying psychotic who seems normal, and beautiful writing. Loved it' Stephen King'Can make you gasp in astonishment or break your heart with a single line' Wa...
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Madame Rosette (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlMadame Rosette is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In Madame Rosette, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, t...
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Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen~The New York Times bestselling novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning writer~‘Miller's Valley reads like a companion to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge’ Elisabeth...
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Learwife
J. R. ThorpeInspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history."I am the queen of two crowns,...
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Heading Out to Wonderful
Robert GoolrickA stranger. A small town. The wife of the town's richest man. There’s no stopping what’s about to happen in this searing new novel from million copy bestseller, Robert Goolrick. Fo...
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Imagine Me Gone
Adam HaslettShortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 20172017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016 'It might be the best American novel about a middle...
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The Meanings of Property in Terms of Land in “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smileys
Annegret RehseThis work deals with concepts of ownership in terms of land in the novel ""A Thousand Acres"" written by Jane Smiley. The novel was written in 1991 and was rewarded a Pulitzer Priz...
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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo
Jason S. PolleyThe novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive write...
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Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J. Ryan Stradal'A tremendous novel that combines powerfully moving moments with hilarious satire' Daily Mail'Eva Thorvald is the new Olive Kitteridge' Elisabeth Egan'Kitchens of the Great Midwest...
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Avenue of Mysteries
John IrvingJohn Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diegoa...
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The meanings of property in terms of land in "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smileys
Annegret RehseThis work deals with concepts of ownership in terms of land in the novel "A Thousand Acres" written by Jane Smiley. The novel was written in 1991 and was rewarded a Pulitzer Prize....
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A Thousand Acres
Jane SmileyPULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER A "powerful and poignant" twentiethcentury reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that t...
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Nat the Cat's Sunny Smile
Jez AlboroughNat the Cat jumps out of bed with a smile spread halfway round her head.She's packed a delicious picnic to share with her friends, Billy Goat and Hugo Hare. But Billy and Hugo are ...
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Independent People
Halldór LaxnessThe great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prizewinning novelist Halldór Laxness'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it...
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The Last Days of Summer
Vanessa Ronan'Opens Vanessa Ronan's literary career the way dynamite opens a safe ... beautiful and invigoratingly shocking' Joseph O'Connor, Irish TimesMidJuly in Texas. Cicadas shed their dry...
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
Kate Chopin & Claire Vaye WatkinsKate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desireWhen The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges ...
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Treason's River
Edwin ThomasAugust, 1806. As Britain fights alone against France, the greatest political chancer of his age hatches an audacious plot to upend the world order. Only one man stands in his way. ...
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March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado & Jane SmileyFour acclaimed female authorsincluding Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley and In the Dream House author Carmen Carmen Maria Machadoreflect on their lifelong engagement with Louisa M...
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My Ántonia
Willa CatherWilla Cather’s bestloved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orph...
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Me, My Hair, and I
Elizabeth Benedict“[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laughoutloud funny.” Publishers Weekly“Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it.”...
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A Dangerous Business
Jane SmileyFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning, bestselling author of A Thousand Acres: An amazing “mashup of a Western, a serialkiller mystery and a feministinflected tale of life in a ...
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The Greenlanders
Jane SmileyFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Thousand Acresand "a diverse and masterly writer” (The New York Times Book Review)comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the traditio...
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Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
Ann Hood"In this lovely anthology, Sue Grafton, Barbara Kingsolver, and other authors go public with their passion for knitting." People (four stars)"The impressive collection of writers h...
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Adult Onset
Ann-Marie MacDonald'AnnMarie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IN ...
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Range Of Motion
Elizabeth Berg'I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, and a huge chunk of ice fell off the roof, and it hit him in the head. This is...
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A Study Guide for Jane Smiley's "Long Distance"
The Gale GroupA study guide for Jane Smiley's "Long Distance", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise stud...
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The End of the Novel of Love
Vivian GornickA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Vivian Gornick's The End of the Novel of Love explores the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in t...
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The Horseman
Tim PearsFrom the prizewinning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two chi...
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The Pretender
Mary MorrissyBerlin 1920. A young woman throws herself from a bridge into the Landwehr Canal, intent on suicide. But she is saved. She refuses to give any clue to her identity. She is literally...
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The Mind-Body Problem
Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinRenee's problem, according to her best friend, is that she thinks "the male sexual organ is the brain." Dissatisfied with her marriage to a mathematical genius, Renee Feuer struggl...
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Viking Age Iceland
Jesse ByockMedieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its ...
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Rainbow's End
Katie FlynnVIVIDLY EVOKING IRELAND AND LIVERPOOL, RAINBOW'S END IS A WARM AND ENGROSSING SAGA FROM A RISING STAR. Tracing the stories of two quite diffrent girls: Ellen Docherty, in Liver...
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Under This Unbroken Sky
Shandi MitchellAn epic tale for fans of Jane Smiley, Annie Proulx and John Steinbeck.'This stunning first novel is powerful, tragic and utterly gripping' The Times 'Epic in scope, beautifully pit...
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Under the Glacier
Halldór Laxness'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan SontagA naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small tow...
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Duplicate Keys
Jane SmileyFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Thousand Acres comes a brilliant literary thriller set in Manhattan that’s “as taut and chilling as anything Hitchcock put on film" (San ...
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Andy Warhol
Wayne Koestenbaum'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popul...
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Perestroika in Paris
Jane SmileyNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prizewinning and bestselling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animalsand a young boywhose liv...
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Radical Hope
Carolina de RobertisRadical Hope is a collection of lettersto ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouragedwritten by a...
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The Big Freeze
Rob ChildsThe big freeze is wrecking the team's soccer season they haven't played a proper match for two months and the novelty of playing indoors has long worn off.But then Jamie's father ...
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A Dangerous Business
Jane Smiley'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 GayFr...
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The Family Man
Elinor LipmanTHE FAMILY MAN is classic Elinor Lipman irresistible, incisive and pure pleasure to read. Henry Archer is a lawyer: successful, gay, lonely. Thalia, his estranged stepdaughter, ...
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The Way Men Act
Elinor LipmanMelinda is a florist. She doesn't want to be. She never intended to come home to Harrow, Massachusetts and, if she did, she planned to be married with a great job, not single and d...
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The Tumbling Turner Sisters
Juliette FayFor fans of Orphan Train and Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from “one of the best authors of women’s fiction” (Library Journal). Set against the turbulent backd...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa CatherA portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America’s most celebrated novelists.‘Quite simply a masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexic...
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Some Luck
Jane SmileyNATIONAL BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us ...
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Sagas of Warrior-poets
Leifur EirickssonKormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred TroublesomePoet, The Saga of Gunnlaug SerpentTongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads o...
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Tinkers
Paul HardingAn old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall of...
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Radical Hope
Carolina de RobertisLetters of hope, passion and courage, written in the wake of Trump's election, from some of our bestloved writers, including Junot Díaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Mona Eltahawy, Claire Mes...
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Lord of Misrule
Jaimy GordonLonglisted for the Orange Prize 2012. He planned to steal with these horses, who were all better than they looked on paper. The trick was to get in and get out fast. But could he r...
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A Trip to the Park/Come Home with Me (Storycuts)
Elvi RhodesIn 'A Trip to the Park', Cassie is excited to arrive in New York, but disappointed when her fiance's job takes him away from her on her first weekend in the city. He makes her prom...