Some Luck (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307744807)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America.

"Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making." --USA Today

1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five.

Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we'd seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.

Author: Jane Smiley
ISBN-10: 0307744809
ISBN-13: 9780307744807
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/13/2015 pg. 32