Some luck
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
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Book
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First edition.
ISBN
9780307700315 (hardcover), 0307700313 (hardcover)
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
395 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780307700315 (hardcover), 0307700313 (hardcover)

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"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
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"Spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.,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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Smiley, J. (2014). Some luck (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smiley, Jane. 2014. Some Luck. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smiley, Jane. Some Luck Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Smiley, Jane. Some Luck First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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