Smiley, Jane

New York. 1988. April 1988. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Small Tear Mark On Top Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394551206. 559 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by John Rush. Jacket calligraphy by Gun Larson. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Literature America Greenland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley's THE GREENLANDERS is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europe's most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, THE GREENLANDERS is the story of one family–proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Jane Smiley takes us into this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us. inventory #2399 ISBN: 0394551206.