Barn Blind
Published on 5. October 2017
224 pages
978-1-5098-4418-0 (ISBN)
Description
Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the lengths we will go to achieve success.
The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charms of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfilment of every wish: to win, to be honoured, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy . . .
The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charms of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfilment of every wish: to win, to be honoured, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy . . .
Reviews / Votes
Chilling . . . Jane Smiley handles with skill and understanding the mercurial molasses of adolescence, and the inchoate, cumbersome love that family members feel for one another * New York Times * Smiley, with flawless command of the shaky grandeur and gritty drudgery which can absorb the equestrian fancy, matches the open-ended rigors of the discipline with one woman's tragically destructive obsession . . . Devastating * Kirkus * So accomplished it's hard to believe it is a first novel. Jane Smiley is a rare talent, a first-rate writer * Hilma Wolitzer * Finely crafted * Newsday * Dramatic, haunting . . . Smiley's absorbing, cautionary tale is beautifully realized * Publishers Weekly * Impressive * Washington Post *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5098-4418-0 (9781509844180)
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Person
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and her novel, Private Life, was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. She lives in northern California.
