Moo by jane smiley summary5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Smiley made up her mind at an early age that she was going to master not just one genre but all of them. ![]() The only unusual things about her are her height - she is 6 feet 2 inches but looks even longer - and her obsession with horses, which rivals that of Trollope, another of her idols. And she is modest and charming, friends with just about everyone, including her several ex-husbands (to whom the new book is dedicated, along with the incumbent spouse). She seemingly writes the way her idol Dickens did - as easily as if it were breathing. She’s prolific and successful, untroubled by neuroses or blockages, with no messy blots of drinking or drug-taking on her résumé. Jane Smiley, whose 12th adult novel, “Some Luck,” comes out on Tuesday, is the sort of writer who secretly drives other writers a little bit crazy. ![]()
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