{"product_id":"9780006551782","title":"Jane Smiley - The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Jane Smiley. Themes include Fiction, Historical, Literary, War \u0026amp; Military, Family Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American classic from the author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe kind of book today's novel readers dream of - that elusive, seemingly impossible thing: a totally fresh, literary, accessible, involving modern twentieth-century nineteenth-century epic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is no American author - male or female - who combines commercial and critical success to the degree that Jane Smiley does. If she were a man, that fact would be rather better known (boasted about?) than it currently is.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Lidie Newton, Jane has created an extraordinary female protagonist, with whom her reader sympathizes utterly and roots for vigorously - she's a genuinely Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isobel Archer or Rabbit Angstrom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouth vs North; Confederacy vs Union; pro-slavers vs abolitionists; puritans vs hedonists; and women vs men - all the great American conflicts are here; all the great fissures that erupted into the worst war the world had then ever seen, the American Civil War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58004806336886,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780006551782.jpg?v=1780412365","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780006551782","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}