Jane Smiley
Early Warning
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The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will change. Frank, the eldest Langdon son - restless and unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and finds himself distracted by a face from the past. Lillian must watch as her brilliant, eccentric husband Arthur is destroyed by his secretive government work. Claire, too, finds that marriage is not what she expected it to be. The dark shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over every one . . .In sickness and health,…
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The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will change. Frank, the eldest Langdon son - restless and unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and finds himself distracted by a face from the past. Lillian must watch as her brilliant, eccentric husband Arthur is destroyed by his secretive government work. Claire, too, finds that marriage is not what she expected it to be. The dark shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over every one . . .In sickness and health, through their best and darkest times, the Langdon family will live and love and suffer against the merciless sweep of American history. Early Warning is epic storytelling at its most compelling. Praise for the Last Hundred Years Trilogy'A masterpiece in the making' USA Today'Rich, beautiful and brilliant . . . Place bets now for this year's Booker' Kate Saunders, Saga Magazine'Here it is at last, the Great American Novel . . . a rural tragedy, a domestic epic and an unassuming masterpiece' Charlotte Mendelson
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-7566-4
- EAN: 9781447275664
- Produktnummer: 17556553
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 768 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D4.5 cm 532 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 02
- Gewicht: 532
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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 her novel, 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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