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Novelist Jane Smiley Explores a Century of Family and Farmland

Oct 23, 2014

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In 1992, Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “A Thousand Acres,” the troubled story of an Iowa farmer and his three daughters fighting over his land. Smiley’s new book “Some Luck” returns to the Iowa farmlands to trace the lives of the Langdon family from the Great …read more

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