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Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer-a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck."
Yet Andrew confounds Margaret's expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in San Francisco, and soon she realizes that his devotion to science leaves little room for anything, or anyone, else. She stands by him through tragedies both personal and those they share with the nation. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a darker turn, forcing Margaret to reconsider the life she'd so carefully constructed.
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'A masterpiece of a novel that stands with the best of Smiley's work.' -- John Burnside, Guardian
'It kept me up all night, long after I'd finished it.' -- Washington Post
'If you're looking for a good saga to get stuck into on your holiday, this is it ... Buy it, read it, pass it on.' -- Image
'An enthralling portrait of the difficult marriage between a diffident woman and an overbearing man.' -- Marie Claire
'Through every scene and revelation, she keeps in mind the moment she's building toward: the completion of Margaret's long-deferred self-recognition.' -- New York Times Book Review
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'It kept me up all night, long after I'd finished it.' -- Washington Post
'If you're looking for a good saga to get stuck into on your holiday, this is it ... Buy it, read it, pass it on.' -- Image
'An enthralling portrait of the difficult marriage between a diffident woman and an overbearing man.' -- Marie Claire
'Through every scene and revelation, she keeps in mind the moment she's building toward: the completion of Margaret's long-deferred self-recognition.' -- New York Times Book Review
Private Life by Jane Smiley is a stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War Two.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0571258743
- ISBN 13 9780571258741
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- Number of pages318
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