Ten Days in the Hills
 rambles for ever: This author narrates through 10 days of gourmet food, uninhibited sex, endless anecdotes, jokes, movie pitches, reminiscences, other tales and fear of the Iraq war. This book is a satire about the difference between the elite, the [... more]
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Duplicate Keys
interesting but flawed: I really enjoyed Moo, so I went to the library looking for another Jane Smiley novel. I can't remember why I chose Duplicate Keys over the rest of the selections. I really loved the first half of the novel, up until the mystery [... more]
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel
From Amazon.com: Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal [... more]
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Charlotte Temple
Naivety leads to ruin: "Charlotte Temple" is about a young British girl who runs away from her family and country because of a lieutenant named Montraville and her promiscuous French teacher, Miss La Rue. When Charlotte is fifteen, La Rue [... more]
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Author: Jane Smiley Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 028 EAN: 9781400033188 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1400033187 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: 2006-09-12 Release Date: 2006-09-12 [... more]
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Sagas Of Icelanders
Good Primer on the Sagas: This is an outstanding and inexpensive collection of the Sagas. It is a bargain at it's list price, and any discount thrown on top of that is just a little more icing on the cake. The collection is a good sampling of all of the [... more]
CDN$24.00
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Author: Jane Smiley Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400040599 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1400040590 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: 2005-09-13 Release Date: 2005-09-13 [... more]
CDN$37.95
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Greenlanders
Great book, characters and setting!: Not many people now know that, during the Medieval Warm Period, Viking explorers discovered an island with a belt of verdant green girdling sparklingly white glaciers. Two colonies were planted on this "green- [... more]
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The Fish Can Sing
The Tao of Lumpfish: I could not help but think while reading this novel of a Frank Capra film from the 1930s entitled YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU about an eccentric household headed by Lionel Barrymore full of amiable zanies who stump the frenetic world [... more]
CDN$16.50
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Horse Heaven
From Amazon.com: It takes a great deal of faith to gear a novel this horse-besotted to the general public. Horse love is one of those things either you get or you don't, and for the vast majority of the populace, horse stories tend to read like porn [... more]
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Good Faith
From Amazon.com: Opening a Jane Smiley novel is like slipping into a warm bath. Here are people we know, places where we grew up. But the comforting, unassuming tone of her work allows Smiley incredible latitude as a writer, and her books are full of [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Ten Days in the Hills
rambles for ever: This author narrates through 10 days of gourmet food, uninhibited sex, endless anecdotes, jokes, movie pitches, reminiscences, other tales and fear of the Iraq war. This book is a satire about the difference between the elite, the [... more]
CDN$50.16
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