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Jane Smiley has written 60 work(s)
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9780061673238 | Reissue edition (Perennial, April 1, 2009), cover price $14.99
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9781590173039 | New York Review of Books, February 3, 2009, cover price $15.95
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9780451531124 | Signet Classic, December 2, 2008, cover price $6.95
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9781439570180 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $15.95
Product Description: âEvery horse story is a love story,â writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of her obsession...read more
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9781400040582 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2004), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author explores the high-stakes world of horse racing, drawing on her knowledge of equine behavior, trainers, veterinarians, and jockeys as she relates the story of two of her own horses as they begin their careers.
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9781400033171, titled "A Year At The Races: Reflections On Horses, Humans, Love, Money, And Luck" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, April 19, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres journeys into the high-stakes world of horse racing as she shares her lifelong love affair with horses, drawing on her firsthand knowledge of equine personality and behavior, trainers, veterinarians, and jockeys as she describes the story of two of her own horses as they begin their careers on the racetrack.
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9781439566251, titled "A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: âEvery horse story is a love story,â writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it.
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9780451530998 | Signet Classic, July 1, 2008, cover price $4.95
Collects inspirational essays celebrating the art of writing, including contributions from Margaret Atwood, A.E. Hotchner, and Donald E. Westlake.
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9780805073614 | 1 edition (Times Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Collects inspirational essays celebrating the art of writing, including contributions from Margaret Atwood, A.
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9781435290457 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $24.00
Hardcover:
9781560543619 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'
9780394577739 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'
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9781400033836 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, December 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: On a prosperous Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear.
9780804115766 | Ivy Books, November 1, 1996, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'
9780449907481 | Fawcett Books, November 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'
9780006544821 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, October 8, 1992), cover price $13.05 | About this edition: Larry is a successful farmer in Zebulon County, Iowa.
9780804111348 | Ivy Books, July 1, 1992, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.
1 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780788706202 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 1999), cover price $116.00 | About this edition: A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.
9780671577278 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, September 1, 1997), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear.
9780671871796 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear.
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9780606302586 | Demco Media, April 30, 2004, cover price $23.50
9780606200752, titled "Thousand Acres" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $23.79 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'
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9781417683130, titled "Thousand Acres" | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $26.90
9780785798545 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.65 | About this edition: On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'
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9780307279095 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, October 9, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In Ordinary Love, a woman loses custody of her children because of a brief love affair; and in Good Will, one man's created paradise blinds him to his family's disintegration, in two novellas that explore the choices and influences that shape two very different families.
Hardcover:
9780786296309 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 5, 2007), cover price $32.95
9780571235339 | Gardners Books, March 1, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In a house full of guests, Max - an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned - and his lover, Elena, share their stories of Hollywood past and present, their fears provoked by the Iraq war.
9781400040612 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 13, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A group of friends and family gathers in the Hollywood hills for ten days of memories and gossip, including Max, a writer/director whose career is waning; his lover Elena; his ex-wife, film star Zoe Cunningham; and their daughter Isabel.
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9781400033201 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, April 8, 2008), cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9781400040599 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 13, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author celebrates the art of fiction as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the novel, ranging from the classics to little-known gems, and discusses the evolution of the novel and the practice of novel-writing.
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9781400033188 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, September 12, 2006), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author celebrates the art of fiction and the pleasures of reading as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the novel, ranging from the classics to little-known gems and from the Tale of Genji to Zadie Smith's White Teeth, discussing the evolution of the novel, the practice of novel-writing, and the publication process.
Hardcover:
9788483102275 | Tusquets, June 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Rare book
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9788483109991 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets USA Pub, December 30, 2005), cover price $15.95
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9788483103210 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, December 1, 2005), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Smiley, Jane
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9780805075885 | Reprint edition (Times Books, May 1, 2004), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Collects inspirational essays celebrating the art of writing, including contributions from Geraldine Brooks, Leslie Epstein, and P.
Hardcover:
9780375432774 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 1, 2003), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman.
9780375412172 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman.
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9780385721059 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, May 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781402543609 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, August 1, 2003), cover price $99.00
Paperback:
9780743476867 | 1 edition (Washington Square Pr, October 21, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on American culture from the Website's 'Life' section focuses on the various types of families that exist in the United States today and the impact they have had on family members.
Hardcover:
9780571205400 | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Read by Mary Beth HurtFive CDs, 6 hoursSpanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Horse Heaven puts us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives.
9780786227938 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2000), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of owners, trainers, jockeys, gamblers, and 'track brats' on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
9780754014935 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of owners, trainers, jockeys, gamblers, and 'track brats' on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
9780375406003 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and 'track brats' on a two-year journey through the racing cycle
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9780804119436 | Ballantine Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Set in the exciting world of thoroughbred racing, this lavishly detailed novel by the author of A Thousand Acres follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and 'track brats' on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
9780786227945 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of owners, trainers, jockeys, gamblers, and 'track brats' on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
9780571205608 | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Read by Mary Beth HurtFive CDs, 6 hoursSpanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Horse Heaven puts us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives.
9780449005415 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and 'track brats' on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780375416057 | Random House, April 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780375415753 | Abridged edition (Random House, April 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and track brats on a two-year journey through the thoroughbred horse racing cycle.
Paperback:
9780753816783 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, February 6, 2003), cover price $12.25 | About this edition: From a poverty stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed writer in the English speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels.
Hardcover:
9780786240012 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $29.45 | About this edition: Offers a profile of Dickens's life, interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
9780754074236 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2002), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Offers a profile of Dickens's life, interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
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9780754074243 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2002), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Offers a profile of Dickens's life, interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
Library:
9781585471850 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, May 1, 2002), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: From Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres: a pair of novellas chronicling difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families.
Hardcover:
9780670030774 | Viking Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Offers a profile of Dickens's life, interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
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9788483101445 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Rare Book
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9788483106013 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $11.95
9788472236400 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.95
Library:
9781585470730 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, March 1, 2001), cover price $27.95
Hardcover:
9780070107885, titled "Basic Network Theory" | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1968, cover price $48.95 | also contains Basic Network Theory, The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection
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9780141000039 | Penguin Classics, March 1, 2001, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of Viking 'sagas' to commemorate the adventures of the people who first settled Iceland, and then explored Greenland and North America.
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9781417770076 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: A devoutly Christian slave becomes separated from his wife and family when he is sold to the brutal planter, Simon Legree.
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