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Private Life A Novel: novel

✍ Scribed by Jane Smiley

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2010
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 249 KB
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize--winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life, from the 1880s to World War II.

Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post--Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer--a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck."

Margaret is a good girl who has been raised to marry, yet Andrew confounds her expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in faraway California. Soon she comes to understand that his devotion to science leaves precious little room for anything, or anyone, else. When personal tragedies strike and when national crises envelop the country, Margaret stands by her husband. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a different,...

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