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Jane Smiley
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born
September 26, 1949
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
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When I asked my older daughter what she thought of my divorce from her father (she is 32), she said, "Do you really think I wish we had remained in that suffocating little four-person family?" But my daughter is a pro-divorce radical. Even as a teenager, when she dated boys from nuclear families, she was open about how dull their lives were compared to ours--always the same few people sitting a...
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A Thousand Acres
   3.62 avg rating — 16,100 ratings
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1991
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32 editions
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Moo
 3.39 avg rating — 3,185 ratings
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1995
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Horse Heaven
3.78 avg rating — 1,692 ratings
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1999
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Private Life
3.14 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
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2010
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
3.46 avg rating — 917 ratings
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1998
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The Sagas of Icelanders
by Jane Smiley , Robert Kellogg , Katrina C. Attwood 4.29 avg rating — 734 ratings
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1997
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Good Faith
3.17 avg rating — 904 ratings
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2003
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Ten Days in the Hills
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Duplicate Keys
3.16 avg rating — 778 ratings
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1995
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The Greenlanders
3.78 avg rating — 632 ratings
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1988
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“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
― Jane Smiley
― Jane Smiley
“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”
― Jane Smiley
― Jane Smiley
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