Private Life

Jane Smiley

Original title: Private life

earliest edition we have, 2010 Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize--winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life, from the 1880s to World War II.Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post--Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer--a genius who, according to the...

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Private Life edition · 2011 · Anchor · 9781400033195
Private life edition · 2010 · Center Point Pub. · 9781602858152
Private Life ebook · 2010 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307593788
Private life edition · 2010 · Alfred A. Knopf · 9781400040605

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