Some Luck (Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga, #1)

by Professor Jane Smiley

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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.
  • ISBN10 159413880X
  • ISBN13 9781594138805
  • Publish Date 7 July 2015 (first published 1 November 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Large Print Press
  • Edition Large type / large print edition
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 664
  • Language English