Her novel Horse Heaven (2000) was set on the international horse racing circuit and featured a vast cast of human, equine and even canine characters. Her clinical exposition of marital vicissitude, The Age of Grief (1987), earned her a large readership and her relocation of the King Lear story to the Iowa farmlands, A Thousand Acres (1991), won her a Pulitzer prize. Three and a half decades later, Smiley is the author of 11 novels and one of the most successful writers in the country. While she was never the most orthodox ultra-leftist - for one thing few of her comrades were as fanatical about horse-riding as she was - she nevertheless did her share of analysing the way America did business and agitating against it. I n the late 1960s, Jane Smiley spent a summer living in a Maoist commune in Connecticut.
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