Some luck [a novel] [LP]
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,...
| Main Author: | Smiley, Jane (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning,
2014.
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| Edition: | Large Print edition. |
| Series: |
Last hundred years trilogy ;
1 |
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| Summary: |
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. |
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| Physical Description: |
663 pages (large print) : genealogical tables ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781410473479 1410473473 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |