Ordinary Love: Two Novellas

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane, Smiley, Jane. Good Will

'I have given my children the two cruellest gifts I had to give! the experience of perfect family happiness and the certain knowledge that it could not last.' So says the narrator of Ordinary Love,...

The All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton

By JANE SMILEY, Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive - a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We se...

The Greenlanders

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

An epic novel set in the 14th-century Norse world. At the tip of the polar icecap, feeling themselves abandoned by Europe, the people are haunted by a rising apprehension - the winters seem more cr...

Ordinary Love

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane, Smiley, Jane. Good Will

'I have given my children the two cruellest gifts I had to give! the experience of perfect family happiness and the certain knowledge that it could not last.' So says the narrator of Ordinary Love,...

A Thousand Acres

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s *King Lear* centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she...

The Greenlanders

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

An epic novel set in the 14th-century Norse world. At the tip of the polar icecap, feeling themselves abandoned by Europe, the people are haunted by a rising apprehension - the winters seem more cr...

A Thousand Acres

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s *King Lear* centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she...

The All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton : A Novel

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

From the author of A THOUSAND ACRES, a novel which examines middle America during the nineteenth century. Reissued

A Thousand Acres

By JANE SMILEY, Smiley Jane

Duplicate Keys

By Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane

They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with the high hopes of making a big-time splash in the music industry. Though the dream faded, the bonds between the tight-knit gro...