by Jane Smiley · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385721875
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«The Age of Grief» is a collection of short stories and a novella by Jane Smiley, published by Anchor in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Jane Smiley examines love, friendship, and marriage in these stories: a lonely woman tries to discover the secret of the happy couple next door, a man feels guilt when ending an affair, and in the title novella a dentist comforts his wife while hiding his own pain.
The work was originally published in 1987, and this Anchor paperback edition appeared in 2002. Jane Smiley received the O. Henry Award for the story «Lily».
For readers of literary fiction and short stories looking for tales about relationships, marriage, and everyday life.
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
