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Ordinary Love

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05 October 2017
208 pages
9781509844210
Imprint: Mantle

Reviews

Jane Smiley writes with such perception about the emotional perversities that assail the human heart that she manages to convince us utterly of her characters' actions. With this volume she ratifies her claim as one of her generations most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love, its pleasures and its frightening hazards
Smiley demonstrates a considerable sensitivity in her treatment of love and friendships. Her vision is as clear and unswerving as the writing
It's difficult to find a cliche or a wasted word in Smiley's prose
Wise, powerful and resonantly memorable, these stories are sure to be classics