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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The Perennial Collection | Reading Level: very good
Reprinted as part of the Perennial Collection of Prizewinners, Bestsellers and Modern Classics. The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers, repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Io ...Show more
All True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie by Jane Smiley (Retold by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 hea ...Show more
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges ...Show more
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good
Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It is 1982, morning in America, and temptation is everywhere. And, as Marcus Burns (Joe's new friend from New York) says, the old rules are ready to be brok ...Show more
Horse Heaven by Smiley, Jane
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris,Horse Heavenputs us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives. Here is the trainer of dazzling integrity and his opposite: a wicked prince of the tract, ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years 1 | Reading Level: very good
The first instalment in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's masterpiece - a trilogy following one family over a hundred years 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary ...Show more
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley recaptures an almost forgotten part of the American story and once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance in The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Set in the 1850s, The All-True Travels and Adventures ...Show more
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