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Jane Smiley and
Lorelei King (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
October 7, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780804194105
ISBN-10
0804194106
Dimensions
1.25 by 5 by 5.75 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$45.00
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, 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 you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, 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 you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (November 5, 2014)
9781410473479 | details & prices | 663 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $31.99
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (October 7, 2014)
9780307700315 | details & prices | 395 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $26.95
Paperback
from Anchor Books (July 7, 2015)
9780307744807 | details & prices | 395 pages | 5.10 × 8.00 × 0.80 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.95
Large print edition from Large Print Pr (July 7, 2015)
9781594138805 | details & prices | 661 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $15.95
from Pan Macmillan (February 26, 2015)
9781447284680 | details & prices | List price $11.60
With Sarah Hughes |
from Childrens Pr (September 1, 2001); titled "My Grandmother Works in a Dress Shop"
9780516232836 | details & prices | Rec. grade levels 1-2 | List price $10.01
This edition also contains My Grandmother Works in a Dress Shop
About: Simple text and illustrations explain the art of dressmaking.
This edition also contains My Grandmother Works in a Dress Shop
About: Simple text and illustrations explain the art of dressmaking.
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Lorelei King (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (October 7, 2014)
9780804194105 | details & prices | 5.00 × 5.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $45.00
About: Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
About: Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
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