On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.

An account by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of her lifelong love affair with horses, & an exploration of the bond between horses & humans.

(Penguin Lives series). The quick graph study evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly energetic - and lionized. Includes brilliant interpretations of all the major works, an explanation of his narrative technique and his innovative voice and themes, as well as a reflection on the origins of his richly varied lower-class cameos. 212p.

8vo. 1st edition. SIGNED by Smiley on tipped-in leaf. Bumping to board spine ends with slight fading to bottom margins and small staining to top margins of rear joint. Edgewear to d.j. with some scrapping and chipping to spine ends. 'Signed First Edition' sticker to front panel. VG/VG.

"A selection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author, Alice Munro"--

Novel set in an American suburb in the 1980s about a man who falls for a real estate investment scam, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize winner 'A Thousand Acres.'

Novel about horse racing by the Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Though she was raised to marry, Margaret Mayfield remains single at the age of twenty-seven, making her an old maid in the eyes of her post-Civil War Missouri town. But then she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early, the most famous man in their small town and a decorated naval officer. Soon, Margaret comes to understand that her husband values innovation and scientific discovery over her company, but when personal and national tragedy strikes, Margaret stands by her husband. As the Second World War approaches, Andrew's obsessions become dangerous, and Margaret must make a decision that could alter her life forever. 'Private Life' is a moving novel from award-winning author Jane Smiley.

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

8vo. 1st edition. SIGNED by Smiley. Deckled edges. Some bumping to spine ends. Miniscule wear to edges of somewhat rubbed dust jacket. VG/VG.

Stories and a novella.

Set in the 1850s, the novel heads into the maelstrom of 'Bloody Kansas,' where slaveholding Missourians clash with Free Staters, where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband. When murder invades her own intimate circle, she becomes an abolitionist spy in slave territory. 452p.

Attempting to offset her despairing experience while writing the novel 'Good Faith' (2001), Smiley set upon a reading regimen of 100 novels. And, in this resulting book, she dedicates the first twelve chapters to various aspects of theform. The thirteenth chapter consists of 101 short-short essays on the one hundred novels she devoured - from 'The Tale of Genji' and 'Don Quixote' to 'White Teeth' and 'Atonement.' 560p.