Some luck : a novel / Jane Smiley.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804194136 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0804194130 (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (14 hr., 48 min., 26 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2014.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Lorelei King. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on title details screen (OverDrive; viewed September 11, 2014). |
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Subject: | Rural families > Fiction. Farm life > Fiction. Iowa > Fiction. Social change > United States > History > 20th century > Fiction. United States > Civilization > 20th century > Fiction. FICTION / Literary. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |