Some luck /
Smiley, Jane.
Some luck / Jane Smiley. - First edition. - 395 pages ; 25 cm. - The last hundred years trilogy ; bk. 1 .
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different; and Claire, who earns the highest place in her father's heart. Moving from post-World War I America through the early 1950s, Some Luck gives us an intimate look at this family's triumphs and tragedies, zooming in on the realities of farm life, while casting -- as the children grow up and scatter to New York, California, and everywhere in between -- a panoramic eye on the monumental changes that marked the first half of the twentieth century.
0307700313 9780307700315
2013041010
Farm life--Fiction.
Rural families--Fiction.
Social change--History--United States--20th century--Fiction.
Iowa--Fiction.
United States--Civilization--20th century--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Some luck / Jane Smiley. - First edition. - 395 pages ; 25 cm. - The last hundred years trilogy ; bk. 1 .
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different; and Claire, who earns the highest place in her father's heart. Moving from post-World War I America through the early 1950s, Some Luck gives us an intimate look at this family's triumphs and tragedies, zooming in on the realities of farm life, while casting -- as the children grow up and scatter to New York, California, and everywhere in between -- a panoramic eye on the monumental changes that marked the first half of the twentieth century.
0307700313 9780307700315
2013041010
Farm life--Fiction.
Rural families--Fiction.
Social change--History--United States--20th century--Fiction.
Iowa--Fiction.
United States--Civilization--20th century--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.