Understanding Jane Smiley

Name: Understanding Jane Smiley
Brand: University of South Carolina Press
SKU: 9781570038587
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ISBN: 9781570038587

by Neil Nakadate

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Understanding Contemporary American Literature

ISBN-10 1570038589

ISBN-13 9781570038587

Publisher University of South Carolina Press

Imprint University of South Carolina Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 18th, 2010

Print length 296 Pages

Weight 315 grams

Dimensions 23.20 x 17.10 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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A book-length study of Jane Smiley. It offers a comprehensive survey of the author's literary career in relation to her social, intellectual, and creative convictions. It examines her key essays and nonfiction as a means of adding an additional perspective on her novels.

This book offers an insightful introduction to the strikingly imaginative range of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. This fully updated edition of the only book-length study of Jane Smiley serves as a comprehensive survey of the innovative author''s literary career in relation to her social, intellectual, and creative convictions. Neil Nakadate''s study is organized around close readings of Smiley''s major fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ""A Thousand Acres"". Nakadate also examines her key essays and nonfiction as a means of adding an additional perspective on her novels. The volume''s updated biographical material benefits from an unpublished interview conducted with Smiley in 2008, and the citations and extensive bibliography have also been updated, making this new edition an ideal point of entrance for readers eager to understand Smiley''s complete body of work.

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