Some Luck: A novel

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Some Luck: A novel

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize:Â a powerful, engrossing new novelâ€”the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.Â

On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her fatherâ€™s heart.

Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, 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 youâ€™d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.Â Â

Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogyâ€”a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Jane Smiley
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1st
EISBN	9780385350396
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Anchor
Manufacturer	Anchor
NumberOfPages	418
PublicationDate	2014-10-07
Publisher	Anchor
ReleaseDate	2014-10-07
Studio	Anchor

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