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Jane Smiley

    26 de septiembre de 1949

    Jane Smiley es una novelista estadounidense cuyas obras se caracterizan por una profunda visión de la naturaleza humana y las relaciones sociales. En sus novelas, entrelaza magistralmente descripciones de la vida rural con temas universales de amor, pérdida y la búsqueda de sentido. Su estilo es preciso y evocador, centrándose a menudo en las dinámicas familiares y las vidas interiores de sus personajes. A través de su escritura, explora las complejidades de la existencia humana y encuentra belleza en los momentos cotidianos.

    Jane Smiley
    Saddles and Secrets
    Taking the Reins (An Ellen & Ned Book)
    Charles Dickens. A Life
    The sagas of Icelanders : a selection
    Pie in the Sky
    Heredarás la tierra
    • En Zebulon County la propiedad de la tierra es un dato tan esencial como el apellido. Una noche de 1979, el irascible Larry Cook, propietario de la mayor granja del condado, decide repentinamente repartir entre sus tres hijas los mil acres que durante cuatro generaciones han pertenido a la familia. La hija menor, Caroline, expresa sus dudas con respecto a decisión tan drástica, y su padre, en un arrebato temperamental, la excluye de la partición. Este hecho constituye el disparador de la tragedia que signará los destinos individuales involucrados. Larry Cook se precipita a un estado de locura senil y se convierte en un hombre pendenciero, bebedor y depravado que aterroriza a sus hijas. Al tiempo, sentimientos de venganza, odio y recelo largamente reprimidos afloran a la superficie y promueven una tragedia cuyas raíces han permanecido sofocadas por un oscuro pasado familiar y en las inquietantes relaciones de vecindad promovidas por una tierra que moldea a su imagen y semejanza a sus habitantes... Heredarás la tierra perfila una galería de personajes de hondo dramatismo y una atmósfera de exasperante tensión a cuyo compás se desarrolla una historia de pasiones extremas.

      Heredarás la tierra
    • Pie in the Sky

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her horse? Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Pie in the Sky is the most expensive horse Abby has ever ridden. But he is proud and irritable, and he takes Abby's attention away from the continuing mystery that is True Blue. And then there's high school—Abby finds new friends, but also new challenges, and a larger world that sometimes seems strange and intimidating. She begins to wonder if there is another way to look at horses, people, and life itself. Accompanied by the beautiful imagery of 1960s Northern California, Abby's charming mix of innocence and wisdom guide us through Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley's latest middle-grade horse novel.

      Pie in the Sky
    • The sagas of Icelanders : a selection

      • 348 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Presents a collection of Viking "sagas" to commemorate the adventures of the people who first settled Iceland, and then explored Greenland and North America.

      The sagas of Icelanders : a selection
    • Taking the Reins (An Ellen & Ned Book)

      • 208 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      A young rider encounters well-known horses and new friends in the final installment of the Ellen & Ned trilogy by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley. Ellen's family has moved to a new town...but some things, like her love for horses, remain the same. Ellen is now the proud owner of her own horse, Tater. She's learning new skills and challenging herself as a rider...but she still can't stop thinking about Ned, the feisty former racehorse she sees on the ranch during her lessons. In the meantime, Ellen's making new friends and encountering old ones. Most exciting of all is Da, a boy from a riding family who is possessed of a spirit of mischief and daring and knows his own mind. Ellen still has a lot to learn...about horses, friendship, and herself. And will she ever be able to get Ned off her mind?

      Taking the Reins (An Ellen & Ned Book)
    • A young rider gets to know a new pony, adjust to a new sibling and learns a lot about secrets in this charming follow-up to Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley's Riding Lessons.

      Saddles and Secrets
    • Discusses the pleasure of reading, and why a novel succeeds or doesn't. The author delves into the character of the novelist, and reveals how novels have affected her own life. She describes the process of novel-writing, sharing the secrets of her own habits and theories of creativity. She also offers practical advice to aspiring writers.

      Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
    • Golden Age

      • 720 páginas
      • 26 horas de lectura

      The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy

      Golden Age
    • These two novellas, by the author of The Age of Grief and The Greenlanders reveal the intricate and often heart-breaking inner workings of families. Here a woman recalls the long ago affair that ended her relationship with her husband and changed their lives. And a man discovers that the carefully planned lifestyle he has chosen for his family incorporates unexpected consequences. Nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

      Ordinary Love and Good Will
    • A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares “Jewel” and all the geldings “George” and warns Abby not to get the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone—for good, it seems—and now Daddy won’t speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there’s one gelding on her family’s farm that gives her no end of the horse who won’t meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George.

      The Georges and the Jewels