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|title=Ten Days in the Hills

|author=Jane Smiley

|date=March 2007

|isbn=978-0571235339

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Fifteen years ago Jane Smiley wrote a Pulitzer prize-winning novel, [[A Thousand Acres]], inspired by Shakespeare's "King Lear". This book takes the same approach of pinching inspiration from elsewhere, but not from where you might immediately think. Ian McEwan's 2005 novel [[Saturday]] covers the same theme as ''Ten Days In The Hills''(the Iraq war) and manages to do so within the course of a single day, 15 Feb 2003, when the big anti-war demonstration was held in London. Smiley, however, is American, so her version is bigger though not neccesarily better. Her 464 pages cover a longer period - those 10 days