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Jane Smiley A Year at the Races
Faber and Faber 2005 0571226078 / 9780571226078 Softcover New with no dust jacket
New paperback with no remainder mark. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 0.94 x 7.56 x 4.96 Inches; 292 pages
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12.70 USD
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Smiley, Jane Good Faith
Random House Large Print 2003 0375432779 / 9780375432774 Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket
Book is BRAND NEW, unread. First large print edition. ; 1.46 x 9.56 x 6.57 Inches; 720 pages; Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts—comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit—to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy.
Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he’s ready to begin again. It’s 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe’s new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS.
But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what’s the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime?
And then there’s Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning (and married) daughter of Joe’s mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she’s just been waiting for him to be available.
The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention—to Marcus and to Felicity—and reap the rewards?
Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages (every Main Street an El Dorado). To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.
4/ 2003
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3.75 USD
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Jane Smiley The Georges and the Jewels
Knopf Books for Young Readers 2009 0375862277 / 9780375862274 Hardcover New in New dust jacket
New hardcover with no remainder mark. Stated First Edition. Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.8 Inches; 240 pages; 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 attached: 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 trouble: 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.
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4.89 USD
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Smiley, Jane . The Greenlanders.
New York, NY: Knopf, NY 1988 Book Club Edition Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Good/Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG HC. Slight chipping on DJ edges. 8vo. 592 pp. Name/date written in pen on front end paper. ".hypnotic novel that draws us into a fourteenth-century Norse world at once harsh and beautiful, bleak and opulent with life."; 592 pages
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5.00 USD
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