Private Life

Author: Smiley, Jane

Brand: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Format: Import

Number Of Pages: 496

Release Date: 03-03-2011

Details: Product Description
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer-a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck." Yet Andrew confounds Margaret's expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in San Francisco, and soon she realizes that his devotion to science leaves little room for anything, or anyone, else. She stands by him through tragedies both personal and those they share with the nation. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a darker turn, forcing Margaret to reconsider the life she'd so carefully constructed.
Book Description
Private Life by Jane Smiley is a stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War Two.
About the Author
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St Louis, Missouri. In 1992 she won the Pulitzer Prize for
A Thousand Acres, for which she also won the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her other novels include
Moo (1995),
Horse Heaven (2000), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize,
Good Faith (2003) and
Ten Days in the Hills (2007). Her most recent novel is
Private Life (2010). In 2006 Jane Smiley was awarded the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature.

EAN: 9780571258758

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English