Golden age
By: Jane Smiley
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: The last hundred years trilogy -- bk. 3; Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 763
ISBN-13: 9781410482990
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Climatic changes; Brothers and sisters; Family farms; Social change; Fiction; FICTION; General; Rural families; History
Description: It's 1987. The next generation of Langdons are facing economic, social, cultural, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered. Michael and Richie, twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes worlds of government and finance, in Washington and New York, but their fiercest enemies may be closer to home. Charlie, the charming recently found scion, struggles with whether he wishes to make a mark on the world; Guthrie, once poised to take over the Langdons' Iowa farm, is instead deployed to Iraq, leaving the farm in the hands of his younger sister, Felicity. However Felicity, as always, has her own ideas. Determined to help preserve the planet, she worries that her family farm's once rich, bountiful land is imperiled, and not only by the extremes of climate change.
Notes: "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Best-selling author of Some Luck and Early Warning"--Cover.