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Ten Days in the Hills

Ten Days in the Hills

by JaneSmiley (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $3.40

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    Paperback 2007

    $7.41

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    Hardcover 2007

    $21.69
Synopsis

It is the morning after the Academy Awards. Max, an award-winning writer and his lover, Elena, are hosts to a house full of guests including their daughter, a movie star, a healer and an agent. Over the course of the next ten life-changing days, they share stories of Hollywood, watch movies and become entangled by the pool. Sparks fly and tension mounts as this unputdownable tale of love, war, sex, politics, friendship and betrayal moves towards its redemptive end.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 656
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0571235344
ISBN 13: 9780571235346
Book Overview: Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley is a funny, provocative tale about a group of friends and family gathered for ten transformative days in the Hollywood hills.

Media Reviews
A blazing farce, a fiery satire of contemporary celebrity culture and a rich, simmering meditation on the price of war and fame and desire. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
A raunchy survey of the human condition. . . . A modern-day Decameron,
--John Updike, The New Yorker
Luxurious. . . . The extremely talented and ever-surprising Jane Smiley . . . deftly transposes the central themes and rich atmosphere of a literary classic to contemporary America.
-- Entertainment Weekly
Sprawling, languid, randy . . . Ten Days in the Hills is a novel, and a shimmering one at that, of social observations, archly written and mordantly funny.
-- San Francisco Chronicle
Author Bio
Jane Smiley is the author of eleven novels, as well as four works of non fiction. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She lives in Northern California.