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It is no accident that Smiley ends the novel with a wedding in which an adulterous couple, 1960s radicals with four children, finally legalize their relationship. Many have already experienced promiscuity, divorce, widowhood, or adultery and are seeking committed relationships based on concern, forgiveness, and sharing. Jane Smiley did what many thought impossible in her last novel, 'A Thousand Acres,' transplanting the tragic story of King Lear from a. Older faculty, administrators, and staff have more complex reactions to their sexual longings. Once the initial thrill of experimentation ends, however, the students begin to realize that fornication itself has few long-term satisfactions. Among her many novels, Smiley has written a powerful chronicle of Midwestern farm life in her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres and a clever satire of academic life at an agricultural. In the past, she has excelled with novels that use a social nexus to explore a broad spread of.

For the students, sex is often a frustrating but frantic round of copulation and shortlived infatuation. Jane Smiley might be the perfect candidate to write a truly panoramic novel about a vast subject. Among students, faculty, staff, and administrators there is widespread sexual activity that often reveals a loneliness in the characters. JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age, the concluding volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy.

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