National Book Award Nominee A Best Book of the Year: "The Washington Post," NPR, "USA Today," "San Francisco Chronicle," "Financial Times," "The Seattle Times," "St. Louis Post-Dispatch," "BookPage" 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. The first volume of an epic trilogy from a beloved writer at the height of her powers, "Some Luck" starts us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780307744807
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/07/2015
Año de edición: 2015
Plaza de edición: Eeuu
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Jane Smiley
(Los Ángeles, California, 1949) Autora de una veintena de obras de ficción y ensayo. «Heredarás la tierra» (1991) le valió el Premio Pulitzer de narrativa y el Premio Nacional de la Crítica (National Book Critics Circle Award). Desde 2001 forma parte de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Entre otras obras, es autora de «The Greenlanders» (1988) y la trilogía formada por «Some Luck» (2014), «Early Warning» (2015) y «Golden Age» (2015). En Sexto Piso también hemos publicado «La edad del desconsuelo» (1987), «Un amor cualquiera» (1989) y «La mejor voluntad» (1989).