Jane Smiley Livres

1982 : l'Amérique de Reagan s'éveille. Dans une petite ville à quatre-vingt-dix minutes de New York, un homme, la petite quarantaine avenante, mène une vie paisible. Joe Stratford est un agent immobilier consciencieux et très modérément ambitieux. Plutôt que de nourrir des désirs irréalisables dans le travail ou en amour, il préfère se laisser porter par la vie, regarder les autres prendre les devants. Un tel tempérament fait de lui la cible privilégiée de Marcus Burns, ex-agent du fisc reconverti en escroc, qui parvient, sans trop de mal, à le convaincre de se lancer dans une opération immobilière de grande envergure. Marcus a vu l'administration Reagan donner le coup d'envoi d'une véritable folie spéculative. Pas question d'être en reste. À l'entendre, la possibilité de s'enrichir très vite est à la portée de tous, l'Age d'Or est arrivé. Joe se demande pourtant s'il est taillé pour de telles aventures. Et si tomber dans les bras de Felicity, la fille (mariée) de son mentor et associé, ne va pas, tout autant, lui compliquer la vie... Impertinent, minutieux, ce roman ausculte avec beaucoup d'humour la séduction et l'illusion qui menèrent grand train dans les années quatre-vingt.

Début du XXe siècle. Dans leur ferme du Missouri, Matthew et Callie Soames élèvent leurs quatre filles, aux personnalités différentes mais au caractère bien trempé : Jessica leur brisera le cœur en s’enfuyant dès sa dix-huitième année, Leonie tombera amoureuse de l’homme dont il ne fallait pas s’amouracher, Mary Jo s’arrachera au cocon familial pour aller faire carrière à New York, et le destin de Mathy, l’enfant sauvage, se conclura par la plus terrible des tragédies. Ces années durant, malgré chagrins et déceptions, les Soames parviendront, malgré tout, à préserver les liens d’amour, qui forment le ciment même de leur famille.

Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her horse? Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Pie in the Sky is the most expensive horse Abby has ever ridden. But he is proud and irritable, and he takes Abby's attention away from the continuing mystery that is True Blue. And then there's high school—Abby finds new friends, but also new challenges, and a larger world that sometimes seems strange and intimidating. She begins to wonder if there is another way to look at horses, people, and life itself. Accompanied by the beautiful imagery of 1960s Northern California, Abby's charming mix of innocence and wisdom guide us through Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley's latest middle-grade horse novel.

Presents a collection of Viking "sagas" to commemorate the adventures of the people who first settled Iceland, and then explored Greenland and North America.

Jane Smiley presents a refreshingly unpretentious portrait of the great English writer Charles Dickens.

A young rider encounters well-known horses and new friends in the final installment of the Ellen & Ned trilogy by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley. Ellen's family has moved to a new town...but some things, like her love for horses, remain the same. Ellen is now the proud owner of her own horse, Tater. She's learning new skills and challenging herself as a rider...but she still can't stop thinking about Ned, the feisty former racehorse she sees on the ranch during her lessons. In the meantime, Ellen's making new friends and encountering old ones. Most exciting of all is Da, a boy from a riding family who is possessed of a spirit of mischief and daring and knows his own mind. Ellen still has a lot to learn...about horses, friendship, and herself. And will she ever be able to get Ned off her mind?

A young rider gets to know a new pony, adjust to a new sibling and learns a lot about secrets in this charming follow-up to Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley's Riding Lessons.

The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy

These two novellas, by the author of The Age of Grief and The Greenlanders reveal the intricate and often heart-breaking inner workings of families. Here a woman recalls the long ago affair that ended her relationship with her husband and changed their lives. And a man discovers that the carefully planned lifestyle he has chosen for his family incorporates unexpected consequences. Nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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 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 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.