Jane Smiley's a Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

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enlarge picture	*Jane Smiley's a Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)*
	Author:	Susan Elizabeth Elizabeth Farrell
	ISBN:	0826452353
	Format:	Handover
	Publish Date:	June, 2005




Book Review


*The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002* "…invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews…the web…[and] literary reviews." *Book Description* This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years – from ‘The Remains of the Day’ to ‘White Teeth’. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. *From the Publisher* This is an excellent guide to Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1991. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you’re studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you’ll find this guide informative and helpful. *About the Author* Susan Farrell teaches English at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. Her specialities are in contemporary American fiction and women writers. Jane Smiley's a Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) SYNOPSIS This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. This is an excellent guide to Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1991. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative and helpful.