Some luck: [the last hundred years trilogy, a novel]
(CD Unabridged)
Author:
Contributors:
King, Lorelei, narrator.
NoveList Series:
Last hundred years trilogy volume 1.
Published:
[United States] : Random House, Inc., 2014.
Format:
CD Unabridged
Edition:
Unabridged.
Physical Desc:
12 audio discs (15 hours) : digital ; 12 cm
Status:
Description
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Grantsburg Adult Fiction Audiobooks
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Mar 29, 2022
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Audio CD Smi
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Feb 15, 2018
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Feb 22, 2020
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780804194105, 0804194106
UPC:
9780804194105
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Lorelei King.
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.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Smiley, J., & King, L. (2014). Some luck: [the last hundred years trilogy, a novel]. Unabridged. [United States], Random House, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Smiley, Jane and Lorelei, King. 2014. Some Luck: [the Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a Novel]. [United States], Random House, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Smiley, Jane and Lorelei, King, Some Luck: [the Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a Novel]. [United States], Random House, Inc, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Smiley, Jane, and Lorelei King. Some Luck: [the Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a Novel]. Unabridged. [United States], Random House, Inc, 2014.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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