Some Luck: Jane Smiley
b'When I was in eighth grade my history teacher wrote on my report card: \\u201cShe only does what she wants to do.\\u201d She thought that was a bad thing, and it\\u2019s not.Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres, a retelling of King Lear transplanted to 20th-century Iowa. She joined us at the shop to read from her latest novel, Some Luck (Mantle), the first book in a projected trilogy, which returns to rural Iowa in the 1920s. Charlotte Mendelson wrote of the book: \\u2018So here it is at last, the Great American Novel and, in retrospect, it seems obvious that the great Jane Smiley would be the one who wrote it.\\u2019 Jane Smiley spoke in conversation with Alex Clark.
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