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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
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Barn Blind, Jane Smiley
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1994
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- Titel
- Barn Blind
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Jane Smiley
- Verlag
- Flamingo / HarperCollins
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1994
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0006547265
- ISBN13
- 9780006547266
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Natur, Tiere, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Pferde
- Originaltitel
- Barn blind
- Beschreibung
- 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