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Zusatztext Here is one of America's leading novelists writing at the height! breadth and width of her powers. Magnificent. Informationen zum Autor Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1987. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and her novel, Private Life , was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by The Atlantic , The New Yorker , and The Washington Post . Klappentext The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will change. Frank, the eldest Langdon son - restless and unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and finds himself distracted by a face from the past. Lillian must watch as her brilliant, eccentric husband Arthur is destroyed by his secretive government work. Claire, too, finds that marriage is not what she expected it to be. The dark shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over every one . . . In sickness and health, through their best and darkest times, the Langdon family will live and love and suffer against the merciless sweep of American history. Early Warning is epic storytelling at its most compelling. Praise for the Last Hundred Years Trilogy 'A masterpiece in the making' USA Today 'Rich, beautiful and brilliant . . . Place bets now for this year's Booker' Kate Saunders, Saga Magazine 'Here it is at last, the Great American Novel . . . a rural tragedy, a domestic epic and an unassuming masterpiece' Charlotte Mendelson The Last Hundred Years series continues with Early Warning , from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley. Zusammenfassung The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and instead finds himself distracted by a face from the past. Lillian must watch as her brilliant, eccentric husband Arthur is destroyed by the guilt arising from his secretive government work. Claire, too, finds that marriage is not quite what she expected it to be. In Iowa where the Langdons began, Joe sees that some aspects of life on the farm never change, while others are unrecognizable. And though a few members of the family remain mired in the past, others will attempt to move beyond the lives they have always known; and some will push forward as never before. The dark shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over every one . . . In sickness and health, through their best and darkest times, the Langdon family will live and love and suffer against the broad, merciless sweep of American history. Moving from the 1950s to the 1980s, Early Warning by Jane Smiley is epic storytelling at its most wise and compelling from a writer at the height of her powers. ...
A propos de l'auteur
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including
A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Her novel
Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and her novel,
Private Life, was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. She lives in northern California.
Résumé
The Last Hundred Years series continues with Early Warning, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley.
