At Paradise Gate - Softcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres now offers "a poignant recognition of ordinary lives that, of course, are never ordinary at all" (Los Angeles Times) in the story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying. (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone)
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Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, grew up in St. Louis, and studied at Vassar and the University of Iowa, where she received her Ph.D. She is
the author of eight other works of fiction. She lives in central California.
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the author of eight other works of fiction. She lives in central California.
The Des Moines Register A wise and wonderful book, shot through with rare insight.
The Fresno Bee Smiley's sharp insight, the homely use of details of family life, and the mysteries of marriage set this book apart....One to re-read with appreciation and pleasure.
Library Journal Studded with sensuous descriptive passages and marked with slivers of insight -- a treat for senses and intellect alike. For Smiley, another quite remarkable effort.
Kirkus Reviews Complex domestic tensions...honest, moving, quietly splendid.
The Fresno Bee Smiley's sharp insight, the homely use of details of family life, and the mysteries of marriage set this book apart....One to re-read with appreciation and pleasure.
Library Journal Studded with sensuous descriptive passages and marked with slivers of insight -- a treat for senses and intellect alike. For Smiley, another quite remarkable effort.
Kirkus Reviews Complex domestic tensions...honest, moving, quietly splendid.
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0671885332
- ISBN 13 9780671885335
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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