Ten Days in the Hills

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• Popcorn and pillow talk

  Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley 464pp, Faber, £16.99 Imagine an extended episode of Newsnight Review in which, after some elevated and vaguely competitive conversation about the sustainability of modern Iranian cinema, Mark and Germaine get thei ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• In the beginning

  In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. One t ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Wrong Side of the Hills

  Though this is more like an anti-war commentary, I found it was quite entertaining to read. The comments to the war of Iraq is more true than the time Smiley wrote this book. I also was amazed (not in a offensive way) that Smiley could write so much about this (p.449 page.) I don't think it was pers ... (continue)

  Though this is more like an anti-war commentary, I found it was quite entertaining to read. The comments to the war of Iraq is more true than the time Smiley wrote this book. I also was amazed (not in a offensive way) that Smiley could write so much about this (p.449 page.) I don't think it was persuasive enough for her point of view on war of Iraq, especially she was using the characters from Hollywood. But, I enjoyed it bashing through the Bush administration's rushing to a wrong war.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 464 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1400040612
• ISBN-13: 9781400040612
• Publisher: Knopf
• Pub date: Feb 13, 2007
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Others

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