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Smiley, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006547265 ISBN 13 : 9780006547266

Editeur : Flamingo, 1997

Synopsis

The pastures of the Karlson farm in Illnois have the charm of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees in them the ultimate fulfilment of her every wish - to win, to be honoured, to be the best. By the author of "A Thousand Acres".

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Smiley was born in LA, grew up in St Louis and studied at Vassar and Iowa. She won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award in 1992 for ‘A Thousand Acres’.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The verdant pastures of the Karlson farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the consuming obsession of a woman who see in them the ultimate fulfilment of her every wish – to win, to be honoured, to be the best. Her vaulting ambition becomes a tragically destructive force; a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and have unforeseen and brutal consequences for them all …

“Smiley’s achievement is to communicate so successfully the failure of communication. She has anatomised a network of relationships, focusing with almost impossible subtlety on the gaps between people.”
LESLEY GLAISTER, 'The Times'

“Entirely gripping … This book is so alive in its detail that you can practically smell the tack and the straw and hear the animals shifting in their stalls. Jane Smiley’s unobtrusive prose is very good at evoking the bleakness of the heart, but it can also illuminate moments almost beyond articulacy.”
ANITA MASON, 'Independent on Sunday'

“Smiley’s lyrical ambition and mercurial insights elevate her subject to the status of a haunting inquisition into the precarious future of rural culture. She writes with such an understated intensity that the power of her narrative creeps up on you like the fall of darkness.”
GQ

“Smiley is terrific at nailing down the odd, unbalanced love that siblings have for each other, the encoded, stifling games and secret languages that shape family life. A wonderful novel.”
PENNY PERRICK, 'Sunday Times'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006547265
• ISBN 13: 9780006547266
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible