Jane Smiley

Gebundenes Buch

The Questions That Matter Most

Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

Beschreibung

"Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--

Autor

Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1987. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and her novel Some Luck was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2024 Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. She has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's, and The Nation. Her most recent novel, Lucky, was published in 2024. She lives in Carmel Valley, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heyday Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781597146050
• ISBN-10: 1597146056
• Artikelnr.: 64538369