Thursday, October 27, 2016

A Hundred Years in the Life of an American Family



Off the Shelf
 
By Catherine Dunne    |   Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Ever since I read A THOUSAND ACRES, I have loved the work of Jane Smiley. That novel has it all: love, lust, rivalry, betrayal, loss, grief, conflict, wisdom. It reworks Shakespeare’s tale of King Lear—that “fond, foolish old man.” By locating her story in a farming community in contemporary Iowa, Smiley shows us how all the best stories are timeless. They deal with what it is to be human, to find our way through a world that is often hostile and always confusing. READ MORE

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