At Paradise Gate

In this brilliant novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Jane Smiley delves into the domestic drama of the Robison family. While seventy-seven-year-old Ike Robison is dying in his bedroom upstairs, his wife defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and their twenty-three-year-old granddaughter. Amply fulfilling the expectations raised by Smiley's other celebrated works, At Paradise Gate is a compelling, gracefully wrought portrait of intergenerational strife and family survival.

Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.54w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780684852232
ISBN10: 0684852233
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, grew up in St. Louis, and studied at Vassar and the University of Iowa, where she received her Ph.D. She is
the author of eight other works of fiction. She lives in central California.