Early Warning

Zusatztext Here is one of America's leading novelists writing at the height! breadth and width of her powers. Magnificent. Informationen zum Autor Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. 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. She lives in northern California. Klappentext Now that Joe was beginning the corn harvest with his uncle Gus and Gus's son, Gary, he had plenty of time to stare west, imagining a just barely visible glowing plume rising over the horizon, and plenty of time to look east, wondering what was happening over his shoulder. Of course, no farmers discussed this. The real mystery was that they hadn't thought about it in this way before. Yes, the Russkies had had the bomb for years now, but bombers took a while and could be shot out of the sky somewhere over, say, Canada. But missiles, like the one that launched Sputnick, took less than a half an hour, it was said. Faster than a tornado, hardly time to head for the storm cellar . . . The Last Hundred Years series continues with Early Warning , from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley. Zusammenfassung The Last Hundred Years series continues with Early Warning, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jane Smiley
• Edition: Picador Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9781447275640
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7564-0
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 41 mm
• Thèmes: Last Hundred Years Trilogy; Last Hundred Years Trilogy
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, Iowa, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary