Pulitzer Prize-winner Smiley is back, this time with a haunting portrait of Margaret Mayfield and the turn of the century West. At age 27, Margaret has already lost three family members and knows that her prospects for marriage are dim; so when eccentric scientist Andrew Early asks for her hand, she takes it. The pair move across the country to San Francisco, where they suffer a series of internal and external disasters, including the loss of Andrew's mother and the 1906 Earthquake. The narrative spans almost 60 years and two centuries, but it is Margaret's dawning realization that she married a madman which keeps us riveted.

Private Life (Hardcover)

By Jane Smiley

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9781400040605
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Published: Knopf, 5/2010

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