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Some Luck (2014)

by Jane Smiley(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307700313 (ISBN13: 9780307700315)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf

series

Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga

review 1: Like her Pulitzer prize winning One Thousand Acres, this story is a family saga. It's set almost entirely on a farm in Iowa and is somewhat uneventful as it follows a husband and wife and the eventual birth of five children. It's unique in that the author writes a chapter set in every year starting at 1920 and finishing in 1953. I understand it's the beginning of a trilogy she's writing and each book will cover an equal number of years! I liked the way she incorporated world events: the depression, WW2 (where one son fights in Europe for 4 years), and Hoover's anti communist movement.
review 2: this book reminded me of Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose" - a deep and personal look at the arc of ordinary lives and how they form and reform each other. Tumultuou... mores events on the world stage are backdrops to those close at hand - the way most of us experience them. A lost world of the American heartland recreated - a beautiful read. They used to say about Seinfeld that it was "a show about nothing" - well, Some Luck is a book about nothing - that takes you everywhere. less

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