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by Jane Smiley

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Her first novel. I didn't have much hope for it and never would have bought it myself (it was a gift) because her books written prior to A Thousand Acres have not been very good. However, this was wonderful. A horse farm family, four children. The four children wonderfully done. Really beautiful. These are not like people I know, but completely believeable and interesting.

marysargent | May 12, 2007 |

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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

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400)

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