The Washington Post, November 19th, 1989
ORDINARY LOVE & GOOD WILL By Jane Smiley Knopf. 197 pp. $17.95 JANE SMILEY has written four novels, most recently the haunting 14th-century epic saga, The Greenlanders. But Smiley's reputation as one of the finest younger American fiction writers is based primarily upon The Age of Grief, a collection of five stories and the title novella. In contrast to The Greenlanders's dense historical narrative, Smiley's stories lucidly explore the complexities of contemporary sexual and domestic life. The two novellas in Ordinary Love & Good Will are even stronger than the highly praised "Age of Grief," e...
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