JANE SMILEY
Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Long one of the most accomplished fiction writers at work today—and a writer with great range—Jane Smiley makes this welcome Elliott Bay return to read from her most recent novel, Ten Days in the Hills (Vintage Contemporaries, new in paper). "Smiley goes Hollywood in this scintillating tale of an extended Decameron-esque L.A. house party ... Smiley delivers a delightful, subtly observant sendup of Tinseltown folly, yet she treats her characters, their concern with compelling surfaces and their perpetual quest to capture reality through artifice, with warmth and seriousness. In their shallowness, she finds a kind of profundity." - Publishers Weekly.

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