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Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2196830

ISBN: 0517567008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 174 pp. 8vo. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. 'In her first nonfiction work, the author of Barn Blind fashions what she calls a friendship quilt from interviews with artisans who see their choice to live in the the New York Catskill Mountains region as being significantly entwined with their decision to live by craftsmanship. Fourth-generation Catskill dwellers as well as recent escapees from Manhattan explore a diversity of craft, which ...
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At Paradise Gate

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2269284

ISBN: 0671425986

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Signed without inscription by author on title page. A bit smoky, top page ridge a bit foxed, light crease on front jacket flap corner. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. The second novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley is known for her exceptionally wide-ranging talent and keen takes on everyday life. Her novel A Thousand Acres was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange, and her new novel, The All-True T...
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Moo: A Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2274115

ISBN: 0679420231

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge and jacket reverse lightly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 414 pp. 8vo. Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all t...
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The Age of Grief: Stories and a Novella

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2274384

ISBN: 0394558480

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped, jacket faintly toned. Page ridges very faintly foxed, faint odor of smoke. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. In this collection of five short stories and one novella, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres presents a contemplation of the sometimes mutually exclusive matters of love, friendship, and marriage.
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1992

Edition: 8th Printing

Seller ID: 2301511

ISBN: 0394577736

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Eighth printing. Sticker on front jacket flap. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 371 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclai...
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The Life of the Body

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Coffee House Press / Espresso Editions: 1990

Edition: Limited Edition

Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator

Seller ID: 2195965

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #101 of 170. Signed by author and artist on limitation page. Includes plexiglass case with a charming ribbon closure at the fore-edge. Minimal scuff to rear panel of case. 1990 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Illustrated with six hand-colored linoleum cuts by Susan Nees. From the limitation page: 'Handset in Jan van Krimpen's Romulus type with Michelangelo display. Printed on dampened Johanna, a 75% rag, 25% esparto grass paper, made in France. Designed by Allan Kornblum and printed on a Vandercook 219 by Julia Druskin and Jill Macke...
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A Thousand Acres [Excerpt]

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2196818

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription on title page. Minimal wear to corners. 1991 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Wrappers. An excerpt of the novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, printed a year before its release. A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and o...
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Thirteen [13] Ways of Looking at the Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2196936

ISBN: 1400040590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip and signed promotional photo of author laid in. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 591 pp. 8vo.Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? ravesTimemagazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read one hundred of them, from classics such as t...
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Good Faith: A Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2196939

ISBN: 0375412174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip and promotional photo of author laid in. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 417 pp. 8vo.Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary giftscomic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spiritto the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe Stratfo...
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2196940

ISBN: 0679450742

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Single printed sheet headed Song of the Kansas Emigrants laid in. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 452 pp. 8vo.Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller,A Thousand Acres,and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe,Moo,Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woma...
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Duplicate Keys: A Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2197172

ISBN: 0394530659

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's third book. Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New Yorks erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice space with approximately fifty key-holders. One sunny day, Alice enters the apartment and finds two of the band members shot ...
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The Age of Grief: Stories and a Novella

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2197173

ISBN: 0394558480

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Board edges slightly faded, tiny spot on front endpapers along hinge. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. 8vo. The luminous novella and stories inThe Age of Griefexplore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofA Thousand Acres. In The Pleasure of Her Company, a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness...
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Charles Dickens: A Life

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Lipper / Penguin: 2011

Seller ID: 2273750

ISBN: 0143119923

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor sticker adhesive on rear wrapper. 2011 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 212 pp. With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status,Jane Smileynaturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such asGreat ExpectationsandA Christmas Carol. As his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels, Smiley'sCharles Dickensis at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might ha...
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Ordinary Love & Good Will: Two Novellas

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2274135

ISBN: 0394577728

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 197 pp. 8vo. Ordinary Love: At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father?and changed all their lives irrevocably. Good Will:Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences?sometimes heartbreaking ones.
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