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Jane Smiley
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born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
September 26, 1949
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Last night at dinner, my husband said, "There's no solution." We were talking, of course, about gun control, and it is true that the flood of guns and ammo into our neighborhoods and our nation is daunting. There is no solution. But the first thing I thought of was my mother and me, driving along back in 1954 in her 1953 Studebaker, windows closed, winter day, Mom's cigarette burning in the ash...
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A Thousand Acres
— published 1991 — 36 editions |
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Moo
— published 1995 — 18 editions |
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Horse Heaven
— published 1999 — 24 editions |
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The Sagas of Icelanders
by Jane Smiley , Robert Kellogg , Katrina C. Attwood — published 1997 — 8 editions |
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Private Life
— published 2010 — 14 editions |
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
— published 1991 — 22 editions |
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Good Faith
— published 2003 — 23 editions |
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The Greenlanders
— published 1988 — 16 editions |
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Duplicate Keys
— published 1984 — 15 editions |
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The Age of Grief
— published 1987 — 10 editions |
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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
“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”
― Jane Smiley, A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
― Jane Smiley, A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
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