Jane Smiley
1) Some luck
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Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Description
In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the...
3) Private life
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Description
Margaret Mayfield needs to get married. In a fit of desperation, she weds an eccentric scientist. As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed.
4) Golden age
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Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Description
"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
5) Twenty yawns
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Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 591 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The author celebrates the art of fiction as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the novel, ranging from the classics to little-known gems, and discusses the evolution of the novel and the practice of novel-writing.