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5 Ιουν 2015 · The 45-name Langdon family tree that prefaces Smiley’s 2014 novel “Some Luck” (which began in 1920 and ended in 1953) has expanded to some 70 names in “Early Warning,” the second volume ...
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23 Απρ 2015 · Capturing an indelible period in America through the lens of richly drawn characters we come to know and love, Early Warning is an engrossing, beautifully told story of the challenges—and rich rewards—of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times.
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Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future.
27 Απρ 2015 · Clocking in at almost 500 pages, "Early Warning," the middle volume of Jane Smiley's three-volume saga of the Langdon family, is a good reminder of our culture's conflicted tastes. In an era...
The writing sparkles most when it turns to lust, which fuels several of the episodes: one storyline follows a closeted literary scholar, while another involves tit-for-tat adultery as an alcoholic housewife gets entangled with an exploitative therapist after her arms-dealing husband starts frequenting prostitutes.
