Jane Smiley (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Jane Smiley has published several novels as well as collections of short fiction. In addition to studies of family life, she has experimented with several novelistic subgenres, including a murder thriller (Duplicate Keys, 1984) and a historical epic (The Greenlanders, 1988). With the publication of her academic satire Moo in 1995 and the 1998 picaresque fiction The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (an exploration of the intersections of racism and violence in American history inspired in part by the 1993 Oklahoma...
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