num_pages: 218
description: The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy. Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the excesses we commit to achieve success.
language: English
title: Barn Blind
titlecomplete: Barn Blind
genres: Fiction, Family, Animals, Horses, Drama, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 808
publisher: Ballantine Books