Jane Smiley
Some Luck
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The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As the couple struggle to keep their family through good years and hard years - to years more desperate than they ever could have imagined - the world around their little farm will turn, and life for their children will be unrecognizable from what came before. Some will fall in love, some will have families of their own, some will go to war and some will not su…
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The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As the couple struggle to keep their family through good years and hard years - to years more desperate than they ever could have imagined - the world around their little farm will turn, and life for their children will be unrecognizable from what came before. Some will fall in love, some will have families of their own, some will go to war and some will not survive. All will mark history in their own way.Tender, compelling and moving from the 1920s to the 1950s, told in multiple voices as rich as the Iowan soil, Some Luck is an astonishing feat of storytelling by a prize-winning author writing at the height of her powers.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-7560-2
- EAN: 9781447275602
- Produktnummer: 17078811
- Verlag: Pan MacMillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D4.5 cm 453 g
- Auflage: Main Market Ed
- Gewicht: 453
Über den Autor
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and Private Life was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. She lives in northern California.
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