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In this comprehensive study of Jane Smileys fiction Neil Nakadate analyzesthe fiction of the writer best known for A Thousand Acres. He provides closereadings from the early Barn Blind to The AllTrue Travels and Adventures ofLidie Newton and presents the first extended account of the connectionsbetween Smileys life and her work.Drawing on the critical record previously unpublished interviews with thenovelist and Smileys own prolific commentary on literature writing andAmerican culture Nakadate examines her intellectual interests social andphilosophical concerns and penchant for taking up different creativechallenges with successive books. He traces the ongoing themes and issues ofher work including those of family environmental integrity socialinstitutions economic and political dynamics and the efforts of women torecover their identities in an often harsh and unreceptive world.Questioning the tendency to identify Smileys writing as midwestern or asdomestic realism Nakadate contends that her fiction is a discourse on andacross all American culture and that her oeuvre includes writing that aswith her comic novel Moo departs from familyrelated themes. «
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