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Zusatztext With the Last One Hundred Years trilogy! [Smiley] surely confirms her place alongside Roth! Updike and Bellow as one of the truly great chroniclers of 20th-century American life . . . The historical and political canvas of Golden Age is breathtaking in its expansiveness! and there is an epic quality to the trilogy as a whole. But Smiley is equally compelling on the domestic and familial . . . Reading the Last One Hundred Years trilogy [is] such a powerful ! moving and rewarding experience; a rare chance to witness! from the sidelines! five generations of a family unfold Informationen zum Autor 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, Private Life , was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by The Atlantic , The New Yorker , and The Washington Post . Klappentext Frank had done his best-he hadn't said anything impatient! cutting! sharp. He had prevented his foot from tapping irritably under the table. He had spoken when spoken to! smiled when he had to! bounced his grandson Chance on his knee. When he finally fled! he did it smoothly! with a congenial nod! not saying! or even implying! that the clamor of voices was driving him crazy. He strolled as if idly! as if only admiring the straightness of Jesse's rows! out toward the bean field. He put his hands in his pockets! looked west and north! pretending to care about the weather. The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy Zusammenfassung The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy...
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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, Private Life, was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.
