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This volume includes two novellas - "Ordinary Love" and "Good Will". The first speaks of a mother, loving but realistic, watching her children grow up. The second is the story of a father, self-sufficient, austere and unable to recognize his son's needs.
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‘With this volume Smiley ratifies her claim as one of her generation’s most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love, its pleasures and its frightening hazards.’
New York Times
'Ordinary Love' gives voice to a mother, loving but unsure of her love's value. In forfeiting her powerful husband she fears that she has done her children irrevocable harm. 'Good Will', by contrast, is the story of a father, a relentlessly self-sufficient man determined to live apart from a coarsely materialistic world. In his singlemindedness, he does not see the damage he is causing until it is too late: his domestic idyll explodes in a frenzy of discontent.
"Jane Smiley writes with such perception about the emotional perversities that assail the human heart that she manages to convince us utterly of her characters’ actions. With this volume she ratifies her claim as one of her generation’s most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love, its pleasures and its frightening hazards."
NEW YORK TIMES
“I have given my children the two cruellest gifts I had to give... the experience of perfect family happiness and the certain knowledge that it could not last.” So says the narrator of 'Ordinary Love', the first of two thematically linked novellas, each investigating the dream of the perfect family.
"She demonstrates a considerable sensitivity in her treatment of love and friendships. Her vision is as clear and unswerving as the writing."
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
"It's difficult to find a cliché or a wasted word in Smiley's prose."
THE LISTENER
"Wise, powerful and resonantly memorable, these stories are sure to be classics."
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 000223601X
- ISBN 13 9780002236010
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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