Jane smiley suzanne toren (3 risultati)

Audio Book (Cassette). Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Former library book. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condizione: ACC/VG/ND. y First Edition Thus. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981(1993)* Publisher: Simon & Schuster.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a house in the country. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Some impression marks to boards. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, light paper colouration throughout especially to page edges which are slightly grubby. Some damp staining to lower corners of last few pages. ACC* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 224 pp. text.* Product Description:- Infused with sharp insight, honesty, and emotion, ?At Paradise Gate? is a treat for both the heart and the intellect. In this poignant story, best-selling author Jane Smiley pens a graceful portrait of an ordinary midwestern family confronting the mysteries of death and regeneration. While her 77-year-old husband lies upstairs, dying, Anna Robison spends her depleting energy defending their home. Their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old grand-daughter have invaded, radiating vigor and good intentions. But the younger women temper their help with squabbling, ill-considered advice, and an abundant supply of their own problems.* This is an ACC copy of the 1st thus. with minimal age & shelf wear.* 1993-12-01.…

Audiobook. Condizione: Good. Unabridged audiobook on 20 cassettes, approximately 23.75 hours. Read by Suzanne Toren. Ex-lib with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. From The Washington Post: "Jane Smiley's new novel, Ten Days in the Hills, [is] a work modeled in part on Boccaccio's Decameron. Instead of fleeing the plague, however, the ensemble in Smiley's book is hoping to exist for a short while in a world free of newspapers, television and reports from the front. " From Publishers Weekly: "Smiley delivers a delightful, subtly observant sendup of Tinseltown folly, yet she treats her characters, their concern with compelling surfaces and their perpetual quest to capture reality through artifice, with warmth and seriousness.".…