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Jane Smiley
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LETTERS TO THE FUTURE: I Didn't Try to Save You as Hard as My Opponents Tried to Destroy You
When I was alive, I thought I was trying to save you, but I didn't try hard enough, or at least, I didn't try to save you as hard as my opponents tried to destroy you. I don't know why they did that. I could never figure that out.
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A Thousand Acres
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1991
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116 editions
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Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
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2014
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38 editions
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Perestroika in Paris
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published
2020
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31 editions
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Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2)
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2015
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32 editions
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Moo
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1995
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66 editions
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A Dangerous Business
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2022
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21 editions
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Horse Heaven
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1999
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52 editions
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Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3)
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2015
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24 editions
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The Sagas of Icelanders
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1997
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25 editions
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The Age of Grief
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1987
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42 editions
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“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”
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