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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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1 ημέρα πριν · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
The American author Jane Smiley won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1991 novel A Thousand Acres, which retold the story of King Lear. Early Warning is the second instalment in her “Last Hundred Years” trilogy, an umbrella title as direct and unfussy as the novels it contains.
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 of...
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.
28 Απρ 2015 · Early Warning is a masterful novel that sets the universal questions about love, family, home and identity against the background of a turbulent century. If there is a flaw, it is only that readers will have to wait for The Golden Age, the final volume of Smiley’s brilliantly conceived epic trilogy.” —Amy Goodfellow Wagner, examiner.com ...
