Some luck
By: Jane Smiley
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
ISBN-13: 9781410473479
Subjects: History; Civilization; Rural families; Farm life; Social change; Fiction
Description: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different; and Claire, who earns the highest place in her father's heart. Moving from post-World War I America through the early 1950s, Some Luck gives us an intimate look at this family's triumphs and tragedies, zooming in on the realities of farm life, while casting-as the children grow up and scatter to New York, California, and everywhere in between-a panoramic eye on the monumental changes that marked the first half of the twentieth century.