The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America. 1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time
"It's not true," says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate, and brilliant new novel of horse racing, "that anything can happen at the racetrack," but many astonishing and affecting things do -- and in Horse Heaven, we find them woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery,
Wśród bezkresnych równin stanu Iowa, na rozległej farmie o powierzchni tysiąca akrów, mieszka rodzina Cooków. Sędziwy Laurence, zmęczony kilkudziesięcioletnią pracą na roli, postanawia podzielić posiadłość pomiędzy trzy dorosłe córki. Jednak najmłodsza z nich, rozpoczynająca karierę prawniczą
In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these
