
Barn Blind: A Novel by Jane Smiley
By Jane SmileyBarn Blind: A Novel by Jane Smiley
The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, 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.
Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the excesses we commit to achieve success.
"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."
-- The New York Times
Book details
- Paperback
- 224 pages
- English
- 0449908747
- 9780449908747
About Jane Smiley
jane smiley is a pulitzer prize-winning american novelist.born in los angeles, california, smiley grew up in webster groves, missouri, a suburb of st. loui Read More about Jane Smiley
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