Duplicate Keys

Also By Jane Smiley Good Faith Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it's 1982, and even in Joe's small town, values are in upheaval: not just property values, either. Enter Marcus Burns, a would-be master of the universe whose years with the IRS have taught him which rules are meant to be broken. Before long he and Joe are new best friends-and partners in an investment venture so complex that no one may ever understand it. Add to this Joe's roller-coaster affair with his mentor's married daughter. The result is as entertaining as any of Smiley's fiction. Fiction/Literature/0-385-72105-6 The Age of Grief With a wry intelligence and a lively comic touch, The Age of Grief captures moments of great intimacy with grace, clarity, and indelible emotional power. In "The Pleasure of Her Company," a lonely, single woman befriends a married couple, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In "Long Distance," a man is relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape. And in the wise and moving title novella, a dentist, aware that his wife has fallen in love with someone else, must comfort her when she is spurned, while enduring his own complicated sorrow. Fiction/Literature/0-385-72187-0.Smiley, Jane is the author of 'Duplicate Keys', published 2004 under ISBN 9781400076024 and ISBN 1400076021.